One new technique that's notably missing, and egregiously abusable, is browser notifications. Several times a day now I'll go to a web site that immediately pops up a browser-native non-modal notification asking for permission to use the browser's built-in notifications system.
What is browser notifications ? What's the use for that ? Never seen it in any browser I use (firefox, waterfox, pale moon, opera 12, vivaldi, otter, qupzilla, netsurf, seamonkey, uzbl, and a few more)
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
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#92Most of them don't seem to realize how nagging users scale so badly so that it gets the opposite results (eg. driving people away). Just think if every page out there asked the user to signup to some services... this would make the Internet less usable than using pigeons. Why? because nagging users cannot scale. An user might accept to click a couple banners every dozen different servers he/she visits daily, but what…
> The answer is that the practice must be abandoned because it does not scale. Actually and sadly it's more along the lines of "The answer is that the practice must be abandoned by others but not us because it does not scale." My take is that I just disable javascript (though some browser make it harder to do it) and skip the websites which fail at understanding the concept of a webpage and require javascript to disp…
Perhaps you should just stick to reading newspapers. Zero modals guaranteed!
Re: The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
#93Not affiliated to the author, but can recommend 'Behind the Curtain' chrome extension [1] that lets you dispense with overlay popups using a keyboard shortcut. Saves having to move the mouse around and hunt for the magic [x]. Combined with ublock origin[2] to get rid of the payload of those pop-ups, can also reduce bandwidth / lag / frustration. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/l... [2]…
Well chrome is not exactly free of tracking and advertising, let's not forget that it's a "free" product of the largest online advertising network intended to help them track users and do more advertising.
Works just as well on chromium.