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Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by christophilus »

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…

Yeah. No spinners. No pulsing gray placeholders that sit there for minutes and then shift the content when they load. No 10GB video playing in the background. My laptop didn't even get hot or spin up the fans when I viewed this page.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by bigbuppo »

hectdev wrote: post #5
spottedmarley wrote: post #2

No endless scroll? What the hell am I supposed do I do with my mouse wheel?? Useless!

Needs a scroll that becomes a full page ad that when you scroll pass becomes the same ad but 1/3rd the page

And if you scroll back up the content above is completely changed to something else.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by dijit »

vovavili wrote: post #259
dijit wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't set a tracking cookie, use of IP addresses is allowed for legitimate purposes (Art 6(1)(f)) as long as they're not stored. At least for GDPR... The only ways to actually track without a consent pop-up are: (1) stay off the device entirely and process server-transmitted data under legitimate interests with a privacy notice, or (2) confine any device storage to what's strictly necessary for the service the user r…

This goes to show that the assertion that cookie banners are just "malicious compliance" isn't quite correct. These are significant trade-offs here.

you don’t need to track users by giving them an ID they send with every request.

in fact. you probably don’t need to track users.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by evandena »

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…

Elements that load slower than the rest of the content, so it bumps the links that you're trying to click down, and you click the wrong thing.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by rao-v »

phoghed wrote: post #271
rao-v wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You’re saluting the honesty of someone who is not the original person who’s lived experience you were asking for lol

Ha!

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by buildsjets »

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.

WARNING: Reading his post can expose you to photons, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by Freak_NL »

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.

The page of my bank's website (ABN AMRO) which shows an account's transactions does this in the worst way. It all loads perfectly, it shows the transactions, I move to click on one or the button for a new transfer, and boom a message gets loaded in at the top which shifts every fucking item on the page down 20 pixels or so.

The message is always something inane like 'markets go brrr¹', and it's never something I need at the moment on that page (or anywhere else). I can dismiss the message (hooray?) but it always comes back the next time, so that isn't actually helpful at all.

1: Obviously they use carefully blandified corporate bank language for those messages.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by d3rockk »

gtowey wrote: post #269
ryandrake wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the real problem. Being aggressively annoying works . Dark patterns work. Popups that grab your attention work. Flashing text conveying urgency works. Thumbnails with open-mouth YouTube-face work. Moving buttons around so people mis-click works. Tiny [X] buttons that make people accidentally click an ad work. You're never going to convince someone to stop doing something that is making them money.

Yes, but on whom does it work? Does it work because you're taking advantage of a group of people who are extremely vulnerable to manipulation? People who already struggle with impulse control, who are prone to making bad financial decisions? The elderly, kids? We have to escape this mentality that anything that makes money is valid, that the money itself is the validation of "rightness". Some of us, just some think t…

>Yes, but on whom does it work?

Hitting the nail on the head here-> know your target audience.

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