I additionally love whatever is happening on that mastodon site that takes over the browser back button that somehow involves Reddit.com
You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
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#42How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potent…
That extension would be banned in minutes because that's illegal.
How exactly do you ban a browser extension? How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal?
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#43Off topic, but I've never seen mastodon linked like this before on HN. Interesting this this might've normally been a link to a tweet.
It could have been a poll right here.
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#44How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potent…
That's an awful idea. Illegal, immoral, and would be abused.
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#45How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potent…
Why stop there? Maybe websites you don’t like should have a crowdsourced assassin come to kill the relevant developers.
I've heard rentahitman.com is great. For example: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rent-a...
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#46How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potent…
Because why? Just don't visit these sites if they annoy you. I don't burn down jazz bars just because I don't like jazz.
Why, are you paying for said jazz bar in your taxes ala the BBC news site?
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#47How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potent…
Why stop there? Maybe websites you don’t like should have a crowdsourced assassin come to kill the relevant developers.
There's an argument to be made that the developers are the new crackers, the new enablers of abusive behaviour. Perhaps they should feel some burn for their actions.
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#48I'm surprised there isn't an extension for some kind of white-list only video stream content. I too find these sites despicable. But usually, by the time the video play you've already been fighting some popup about joining, dismissed a browser native window saying this site is asking to send you notifications in the future, and GRDP @#$%^$%^& "we care about your privacy so here is a booklet about our privacy policy,…
Firefox has that built in; Chrome has the option to block audio. Both support a whitelist; Chrome supports a blacklist. There are extensions with more options.
A combination of the "I don't care about cookies" extension and an adblocker with a couple tracking blacklists should avoid both the cookie popups and the tracking cookies themselves.
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#49Off topic, but I've never seen mastodon linked like this before on HN. Interesting this this might've normally been a link to a tweet.
I've just joined the technology mastodon because of this link.
Re: You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
#50This is especially not good when it wakes my wife up by accident.