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Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal
I've got a couple of extensions on Firefox on Android, which make browsing bearable. But whenever I take out my iPad, I want to put it away. Large parts of the web are extremely annoying to me due to the ads, paywalls, popups, modals, cookie warnings, fingerprinting and what have you.
“A bookshop owner is unqualified to be a literary critic. It’s more useful to know the distinguishing features of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers than to have read the bloody thing, and it’s always best not to bandy lit crit across the counter.” I strongly disagree! In fact I would say for typical customers this is exactly what’s expected of the bookseller. To find examples of great booksellers not from this…
as an avid small bookstore customer, in a university town where every genre of book and bookstore existed, I came to know well one successful bookseller, worked for him on special assignments, then worked at his estate. He was literate, mercurial and absolutely a scoundrel about money. The most important, basic, recurring issue of the day was money in every form. Every opportunity to get something for one price and s…
Which, ironically, is not much different by how several very celebrated literary authors where in their everyday life...
Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal
How annoying, I thought the age of obnoxious pop up ads was behind us, but they have reappeared in a big way. I fail to understand the reasoning behind why designers would want them.
Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal
How annoying, I thought the age of obnoxious pop up ads was behind us, but they have reappeared in a big way. I fail to understand the reasoning behind why designers would want them.
Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal
How annoying, I thought the age of obnoxious pop up ads was behind us, but they have reappeared in a big way. I fail to understand the reasoning behind why designers would want them.
Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal
“A bookshop owner is unqualified to be a literary critic. It’s more useful to know the distinguishing features of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers than to have read the bloody thing, and it’s always best not to bandy lit crit across the counter.” I strongly disagree! In fact I would say for typical customers this is exactly what’s expected of the bookseller. To find examples of great booksellers not from this…
as an avid small bookstore customer, in a university town where every genre of book and bookstore existed, I came to know well one successful bookseller, worked for him on special assignments, then worked at his estate. He was literate, mercurial and absolutely a scoundrel about money. The most important, basic, recurring issue of the day was money in every form. Every opportunity to get something for one price and s…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
do we know whether the nag popups work well though?
Yes, time and again people working in such sites and doing testing have said that they work greatly...