Any web dev reading these comments and understanding what the comments express, should know: If you have built any of these dark patterns and anti-features, the annoyance and loathing expressed here is what you are responsible for, and this is how you made people feel about the website you took part in building. By implementing such stuff, you are personally part of the responsible group of people for making this crap. You personally have managed to make this planet a worse place and make your website shit. Given that these days basically 95% or more of websites push this shit, it is safe to assume, that there are many of such web devs in our midst, who are responsible. Congratulations for ruining the web.
Every Fucking Website (2020)
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#382Should 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…
Also needs a carousel that cycles in approximately 2/3 the time it takes me to read the item, with an arrow target small enough that I'm likely to miss the arrow and instead go to a random part of the page that I don't care about.
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many years ago, I used to make informational websites for small, local businesses and they all wanted the cookie banner "just to be safe", even after explaining they didn't need it.
But are you a software developer or a lawyer? Do they 'not need it' because the government provided a way to ensure it's not needed or because your interpretation of the law indicates it's unnecessary? Are you willing to indemnify them for legal costs if your guidance was wrong? Most small business owner's I've spoken to are keenly aware they are only one bad lawsuit away of closing down. Almost no one care's about t…
The 'better safe than sorry' calculation of small businesses skews almost 100% toward 'safe' because almost all govt regulations contain no reasonable size scaling cap on penalties. Any penalties on a website that are per-occurance could be almost infinite.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
Classic over-regulation producing unintended side effects
Really? Because the industry really respected DNT[0]? Regulations are needed when the kids cannot play nice in the school yard. GDPR is actually not that bad if you read it rather than subscribing to much of the malicious compliance we see. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
No one is frustrating users to stick it to the EU. They are doing it to cover their ass.
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#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is misinformed. As many have said before: it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying ... Instead of complying, they choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue ... monitoring every action a visitor does. You don't need a cookie banner to be allowed to create Cookies. You only need them if you're using them for something like tracking. [1] Regulators didn't enforce cookie…
Why does static site of Europe's parliament need big cookie banner? Or is that the parliament which created this law doesn't know what you know or they are doing "malicious compliance". [1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
Clearly they are just trying to rile up users against the EU.
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#386Loaded 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.
Also it shows something when you open it without enabling its JavaScript instead of a normal website which won't show anything without JS... even if the page only has to show text (HTML? I hardly know her).
Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#387Should 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…
To be fair, this website was from 2020... To your point, the web has gotten significantly more annoying to use since then.
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#388Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)
#389Fucking dickovers. The modern web sucks.
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#390I started an e-commerce brand on a Shopify site. I swore to myself I would never put up one of those stupid things that pops up "Someone bought X product an hour ago!" messages in the corner of the screen. I ended up trying it. Boosted conversion rate meaningfully. Worth the price I pay in mild self-loathing. Chesterton's popup, I guess.
Yes but a small popup I. The corner is different than a dickover. I don't think what you did is bad at all.