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Every Fucking Website (2020)
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Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#12So many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#13Needs to autoplay a video which when dismissed just moves to another window and continues playing. With sound.
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#14The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#15The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.
It’s an EU law, but it impacts us all in America as well… because you know, every fucking website
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#16it's funny sometimes there will be an archived espn.com (like this https://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/030418) and it's hard to argue the web was not better like this, i.e. readable
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#17So many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!
But you could obviously be doing it faster/smarter by using Gemini /s
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#18The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.
it's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others.
I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#19inaccurate, i don't have to go three screens deep into a modal to choose only necessary cookies
The best one now is “Read for free” (give me all the trackers) or join a subscription and you can opt out. Pretty much every news / media site now
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#20Because it works
(AIUI "I agree" gets people to give explicit consent with good success and the subscribe modals are quite effective too)