AFAIK Instagram was always like this? Whenever I get stopped I just hit the back button and thank for them saving me time. TikTok does it right - it annoys you with a pop up to login/open in app...you can dismiss it and watch the video. I believe if you want to do more than that it'll annoy you again - but I usually go back to what I was doing before (responding to someone who sent me that...)
The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
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#142If it was possible to bypass then someone would write a bookmarklet, browser extension, etc. that bypassed it.
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#143The evolved response from internet "power users" such as us, is a superpower
We're really good at holding a grudge
AND telling others why we have that grudge
Thus, we route around it, with some grumbling along the way.
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#144I could give two shits if Google wouldn't keep returning results for websites you can't see without an account.
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#145I feel the same burning hate like a thousand suns for FB/Meta, Google/YT and other platforms that monetize their users. But, let's be frank here: They monetize you and me, us, the users because 1 they can and, 2, they have to. Yes, they have to. Imagine they provided access to their platforms for free. How would the shareholders (your retirement funds included) respond when less profit was made? You see, we view them…
Great point, in the 90s people used to spend a fortune (relatively speaking) on taking, sharing and discovering pictures, consuming media and getting their news.
Now everyone wants everything for free, but won’t give anything in return. And they also want market returns on their stocks, 401ks, etc at the same time.
That being said, Meta/Google could implement a guaranteed privacy-first, ad-free option for something like $10-20 a month to give people the option to be a “customer” instead of “product”.
And as you said there is the whole mastodon/pixelfed/lemmy network that people could use, although many mastodon instances seem to be running into financial problems lately.
Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
#146It’s not just you. Twitter has done this to me, when they assumed I was a spammer. Made me verify extremely difficult captchas that were intended not to verify me but to annoy me so I would give up.
Twitter doesn't do this anymore, probably because they don't want any popup to interrupt users scrolling through more ads, logged in or not.
Instagram and Twitter's login prompt might have been motivated by a desire to increase number of logged in users, and Twitter might have given up on that in recent months considering the increased ad load.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recently on mobile it's stopped giving me the option to even view the page anonymously, at least for adult content. It gives me: "This is mature content and may not be appropriate for certain viewers. To continue, use the app to confirm you're over 18 and browse anonymously."
old.reddit.com
Its days are numbered, I think...
Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
#148I feel the same burning hate like a thousand suns for FB/Meta, Google/YT and other platforms that monetize their users. But, let's be frank here: They monetize you and me, us, the users because 1 they can and, 2, they have to. Yes, they have to. Imagine they provided access to their platforms for free. How would the shareholders (your retirement funds included) respond when less profit was made? You see, we view them…
>How would the shareholders (your retirement funds included) respond when less profit was made? At a certain point, who cares? A company can exist indefinitely with any level of long term profit. They don't need to constantly be maximizing profit in the short term which is where these "fuck you" patterns generally arise. We have designed a system that has convinced everyone to never be satisfied or say they have enou…
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't QR codes just a fundamentally flawed system due to how much easier they make phishing attacks?
Part of the motivation is to avoid having to produce Braille menus. Force your customers to use a device with built in accessibility features and you don't pay extra for ADA compliance.
How does a blind person use a QR code?
Not like they can see where the camera is pointing, let alone locate the code in the first place.....
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't have to be a nonprofit. There is nothing wrong with turning a profit. The problem is when the company's only goal is ever-increasing profit and they are willing to sacrifice the wellbeing of their employees, customers, and community to achieve it.
Which every for-profit company seems to wind up doing these days.
Every for-profit public company. And so they should/have to.