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This reminds me the clickbail title and thumbnail on YouTube. One of my favorite channel apologized for it but explained that the difference compared to NOT doing this is phenomenal and they can't afford stopping.
Don't get me started on "like and subscribe".
I 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.
I got one of those on Etsy not long ago: “only one left!” Fuck off with your FOMO, Etsy, there’s plenty left. Five minutes later, “add to cart”. Etsy: “sold out; we weren’t lying!” So in this particular case it didn’t work. But it will next time.
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.
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(edit; not directly responding only to your comment, also to the parent) Advertising is shitty but how would you realistically even make it illegal without violating free speech. Also, advertising does have a good-faith purpose in functioning markets. Failures in regulation IMO are mostly at entirely different levels. E.g. monetization of public utilities and public space. Noise, brightness, and of course deceptive t…
Plenty of countries don't have unlimited free speech. The USA, even, isn't one of the countries with the freest speech.
Or only advertising in media?
Urban spaces? Sure I'd say, but what about your storefront?
Encouraging word of mouth?
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I do this in the gmail mobile app all the time thanks to their ads injecting themselves in between the emails several seconds late. They must love me, their most engaged ad consumer.
A website can track where your mouse pointer is, but surely they wouldn't do this on purpose just to get ad revenue.
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All buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.
Adding to the list of random examples: DuckDuckGo's AI answer box shifts the entire page down once the text is done generating, which happens some unpredictable time after the page has finished loading. The size of the downward shift is somehow exactly enough to shift all results down by one, making me accidentally click on the link just above the one I wanted to click.
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.
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.
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The EU doesn't require banners. Companies could stop selling and storing your data. They could only use cookies when absolutely essential. They could use lots of kinds of UX. This is the equivalent of businesses who put a big visible "20% the state says we have to give our employees healthcare" fee on their bill to throw a hissy fit and hope customers get angry at the government for protecting them instead of the bus…
Banners exist to eliminate EU regulatory risk. You can try to convince people they aren’t required but its not going to remove any banners.
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The EU doesn't require banners. Companies could stop selling and storing your data. They could only use cookies when absolutely essential. They could use lots of kinds of UX. This is the equivalent of businesses who put a big visible "20% the state says we have to give our employees healthcare" fee on their bill to throw a hissy fit and hope customers get angry at the government for protecting them instead of the bus…
The EU didn't have to do anything. The User Agent can already handle everything from denying cookies to blocking requests for certain resources.
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It's more like a cultural expectation that business do shady things and the "clown makeup" is a compromise that government found between making those shady things illegal (utopia) and don't intervene at all and let the corporations set their rules (dystopia). It's like those warnings in cigarettes packages saying they will kill you. I know cigarettes are bad, but the warnings also make me believe there's at least "so…
>warnings in cigarettes packages Oh how I miss those warnings. Nowadays the packages are covered in graphic body horror pictures. And there's no branding on them any more, just white text on a black background, so I have to carefully check that the illiterate teenagers at the store gives me the correct ones. Do anyone else hear circus music?