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Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by dcminter »

bee_rider wrote: post #114
jchw wrote: post #95

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's t…

> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is n…

eBay stops me from typing in the thing I want to search for so they can try to persuade me to use the app that I have expressed zero interest in for a decade or so. Guys, I'm trying to press money into your thieving little hands - why are you trying to stop me?

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by rao-v »

m4tthumphrey wrote: post #192
rao-v wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine curiosity - is the pop up vaguely factual or sort of randomly generated?

Always randomly generated!

I salute your honesty! But [he hastens to add, looking furtively around] I also frown disapprovingly at your choices

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by dragonwriter »

Havoc wrote: post #206
f6v wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Policy making assumed good faith actors Let's not paint the policymakers naïve when they're in fact incompetent.

Let’s not paint the policymakers incompetent when they’re in fact naive

So, let’s not paint them as term meaning lacking the combination of knowledge and skill to do a job effectively> when they are in fact term meaning particularly lacking wisdom, experience, and/or judgement>

Are you sure?

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by dghlsakjg »

pie_flavor wrote: post #181
dghlsakjg wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t use a bunch of unnecessary tracking cookies? Completely eliminates the need for a cookie permission bar.

The law does not say 'tracking'. It says 'strictly necessary'. If you remember the user's light/dark theme preference in a cookie, that requires notification. (Or rather, what it requires in practice is that you hire a Highly Paid Consultant.)

Okay, but it doesn’t require notification for every user that hits your landing page.

If you want to remember dark mode with a cookie, then you can just gate that setting behind a “allow functional cookies” toggle.

Getting consent for functional cookies doesn’t have to be done with an intrusive cookie bar on landing. You can request consent as it becomes needed. There’s other ways of complying that aren’t dark patterns.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by heathrow83829 »

bee_rider wrote: post #114
jchw wrote: post #95

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's t…

> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is n…

Wells Fargo went so far as to remove their best feature from their website: the Spending breakdown page! they now say go to the app but the app is far worse than the browser version was before they removed it. i might even stop using them just for this mess.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by eviks »

jchw wrote: post #95

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's t…

> there is absolutely no way to scroll

Or, at the very least, at a widely different speed/acceleration that you're accustomed to

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by jchw »

hinkley wrote: post #202
bee_rider wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is n…

And don’t ever save the user’s “no” for next time. We need to needle them to use the app EVERY SINGLE TIME the visitor the website. I wonder sometimes how the team doing the website feels about being treated as second class. Or if it’s the same team and they have to hold their noses to work on it. The third dumbest smart person I had to work with obviously hated HTML and kept trying to get us to use a DSL instead. At…

YouTube does something that makes me irate: it saves the abusive autoplay settings only locally per device. There is no way to set it in your account, so every time I log back in I have to disable autoplaying thumbnails and autoplay next video. Every. Single. Time.

I think a lot of people get progressively worn down by things like this, but for me I actually get angrier each time it happens. It's probably good I no longer work at Google because I would probably feel genuinely enticed to find whoever is most responsible for this and engage in psychological warfare.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by imagent »

boomlinde wrote: post #49
WarmWash wrote: post #22

Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.

All buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.

Better yet, detect mouse clicks and display a popup right where you clicked that says something you didn't want, and show a busy indicator to make sure the user understands that they just agreed to something important.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by ranger207 »

vovavili wrote: post #223
dghlsakjg wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t use a bunch of unnecessary tracking cookies? Completely eliminates the need for a cookie permission bar.

I am obviously referring to a scenario where tracking cookies would be highly beneficial to expanding the business, e.g. e-commerce.

tracking cookies are so obviously beneficial to e-commerce that they passed an entire law to disclose them because people... liked them so much?

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by charles_f »

RivieraKid wrote: post #14

The 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.

Once again, as everytime I see this, the policy only dictates that you ask for consent to track personal information from people. The problem is not the cookie banner, it's that every fucking website extracts your pants size to sell it to Facebook.
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