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* “SUBSRIBE TO OUR JUNK MAIL” * Thanks, but I hate saving money Got this full-screen popup with no close button not 5 seconds in. This is not acceptable. It’s obnoxious and disrespectful. Flagged the whole thing.
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I agree. I suck at marketing, so had someone come up with that, but I actually hate it myself, so will try to think of something else. I genuinely want to build something useful that will bring people to the site because it helps them rather that annoy them!
I agree with your intuition. The likelihood that the person actually hates saving money is approximately zero. What they are actually saying is that you haven't earned their trust enough yet to cough up their email address. So when you force the question with a timed modal, they have three options: sending their email address to a site they don't trust, clicking a link that's simply a lie or just closing the tab and…
That said I will generally avoid ‘award winning’ software I’ve never heard of (after buying one Appsumo product I realised the software was a dud) and I also avoid any critical services (lifetime 10Tb cloud backup for $5... no way)
This is a pretty useful list. In some cases I actively avoid businesses with this model as I do not believe the business model is sustainable. But it really depends. If i'm buying FTP software (e.g. transmit) then fine. But if i'm buying a VPN, no chance. I would suggest moving the source column on the table. At first I found it hard to read as the primary data I'm looking for is the service, not the source. Also, re…
Long story short I decided to buy a service called Windscribe 2 years ago anyway after reading some reddit replies (it's a lifetime deal) and so far my experience has been amazing. It's actually better than some monthly paid services I've used and the only service that allows me to watch Netflix US. So exceptions are there though it's only been 2 years using them.. so fingers crossed!
* “SUBSRIBE TO OUR JUNK MAIL” * Thanks, but I hate saving money Got this full-screen popup with no close button not 5 seconds in. This is not acceptable. It’s obnoxious and disrespectful. Flagged the whole thing.
Thank you for your opinion. I have removed the popup, as my intention is not to annoy people, belive it or not.
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I agree. I suck at marketing, so had someone come up with that, but I actually hate it myself, so will try to think of something else. I genuinely want to build something useful that will bring people to the site because it helps them rather that annoy them!
I agree with your intuition. The likelihood that the person actually hates saving money is approximately zero. What they are actually saying is that you haven't earned their trust enough yet to cough up their email address. So when you force the question with a timed modal, they have three options: sending their email address to a site they don't trust, clicking a link that's simply a lie or just closing the tab and…
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I agree with your intuition. The likelihood that the person actually hates saving money is approximately zero. What they are actually saying is that you haven't earned their trust enough yet to cough up their email address. So when you force the question with a timed modal, they have three options: sending their email address to a site they don't trust, clicking a link that's simply a lie or just closing the tab and…
Thank you for that very thorough explanation. I had not thought about it that way. So thank you for the mind-opener of the day :-)
I do wish you the best!
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How about "No thanks, maybe later" or something like that :) Even "No thanks" is fine!
IMHO forcing visitors to be "polite" to a site is just as sneaky as using "I hate saving money". It's all meant to make a visitor feel guilty about clicking it. Just add a simple old close button and don't play marketing mind-games with your users, please.
This is an affiliate link farm with obnoxious shaming dark patterns...
Yes, I agree the popup was annoying. I used a template I found, and understand it was annoying, stupid, disrespectful etc. I have now removed it. It is clearly stated on top of every page that there are affiliate links on the site. I spend 20+ hours weekly finding deals and updating the deal list. If it turns out the world hates this, I can stop doing it, close the site down, and do something else with my time. It se…
It also tries to spin up the GPU, ruining battery life.
I am curious if you've actually tried all of these, or if you're just going with whatever offers affiliate money, because a decent number are either pretty much ad-packed open source projects being sold with a windows GUI/the type of stuff you see on clickbank with a landing page that looks like spam/actual garbage/run by criminals.
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Yes, I agree the popup was annoying. I used a template I found, and understand it was annoying, stupid, disrespectful etc. I have now removed it. It is clearly stated on top of every page that there are affiliate links on the site. I spend 20+ hours weekly finding deals and updating the deal list. If it turns out the world hates this, I can stop doing it, close the site down, and do something else with my time. It se…
I'd also be interested in why some of your external scripts are (very badly and slowly) trying to fingerprint the browser and do persistent tracking. Your aiva thing is triggering "site is attempting to load adobe flash" notice bars. It also tries to spin up the GPU, ruining battery life. I am curious if you've actually tried all of these, or if you're just going with whatever offers affiliate money, because a decent…
My main idea is to find every single deal online that is labeled lifetime deal, and share it in a simple, searchable, sortable overview list. The list will contain my affiliate links, so I can hopefully some day earn more money from the site than I spend. If you have other suggestions to how to label things so people do not get fooled, let me know. If you think the best thing is to delete the site from existance, then I will actually think about doing so. I had a hope it was possible to show a list of links online, be they affiliate links, in some way so that it could still be useful. But maybe it is not.