How I Experience Web Today

Had to turn javascript on to read an article, very realistic.

How did we get here? Does any and everything ultimately get absorbed by the marketing department?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=4e530344963049 take a break.

Very bitter and to the point. I regularly wonder, do the people who want features like these installed — feedback form, "support chat" windows of various degrees of fakeness, subscription offer popups jumping in your face, and other absolutely baffling obstacles — really use their own web sites? Have they ever had to?

Brilliant! Thank you for doing this! I wish I could send the link to almost every organization whose web sites I have had to endure. If you had offered me a rating pop-up, you would have been the first one I ever use (and gave 5 stars to).

Now do one for those horrible CRM messages "Thank you for XXXX. You are very important to us at YYY. Please click here to give us important feedback on your experience."

After I bought a new VW from a local dealer, I was getting so many of these "requests" that I called the dealer and told them that I would never buy another car from them again if I got one more of these emails. They stopped.