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I use Safari and I almost always click/tap the reader view icon as soon as the page loads. This: 1) Shows the text even if a modal has already tried to obscure it. 2) Ensures a legible font and contrast. 3) Undoes stupid scroll jacking. Yay, the text scrolls smoothly again. 4) Fixes the scroll bar so that it provides an accurate indication of how far through the page I've read, since the non-text crap I don't care ab…
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What browser plugin do you use?
Just saying I want to, I'm not actually doing it. I hope somebody develops such a plugin now so we can fill their pretty little mailing lists with all the millions of subscribers they want and deserve.
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If you get no response you can safely assume the answer is yes :-P
After I added the rule to try i didn't see the comment :)
I've looked for something that does this without luck and had been toying with making it myself at some point.
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this, people are too worried about the size of their list as opposed to actual engagement. If they don't open your emails they're just costing you money with your ESP. If you have good content people will search hard for a way to get on your email list if necessary, i've done it before.
this is why it's good to require a credit card for a free trial. it will kill the top of your funnel but the bottom will actually get fatter because those who do sign up for the free trial actually want to demo your software.
For business purchases, the compliance and other risk is way too high for me to do that. You get knocked off the list if you require that.
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>But, I counter, so does spamming or making 10000s of automated phone calls. Spamming and automated phone calls are unsolicited. These popups are not. You are the one in control. You can avoid popups by not going to those sites.
That's not possible the first time I follow a link to a new site though. I avoid sites like Forbes because of their weird splash pages but if it's something new what can you do apart from not return?
Not returning is what you can do.
I'm not saying it's not annoying. I'm saying lumping it with telemarketing is different. Telemarketing is annoying even when you do nothing. Whereas with these popups, if you do nothing, you will not get the popups.
The popups are not invading your space. You are going to their space.
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You would be surprised at the number of chats e-commerce websites receive in a day. One of our clients (selling clothes targeting 40+ women) had their sales almost double when we added in a simple livechat widget. Since I discovered that they actually put helpful people behind those chats I've started to use them. Now I ask questions with all my online transactions. "How is the warranty? Do clients return this produc…
Yeh totally agree! I love the chat windows but its annoying when they pop up automatically.. That is just poor design.
The worst is WPEngine. I already pay for their service, but whenever I look at an article on "How to do X", I hear beep!, and there's a sales chatbox in the corner.
I've taken to starting a chat, letting them know their site is annoying and I'll never use it again, and then closing the page.
I made a add-on for myself to shun sites that behave in ways I don't like. It removes links to their sites from every page. It effectively removes them from the internet. I think that's a way scarier scenario for a website owner than just getting their ads blocked. If the list were community driven and widely used, I think site owners would start changing their behavior. I know most people just want the content and d…
Consensual, transparent censorship. Interesting.
I realize I'm well off the curve here, but I'd still love a browser killfile plug in with:
- fine-grained cookie management by name/secure status/path
- Make every cookie a session cookie in a given domain
- "Cookie pipes": I'd like the ability to execute scripts on cookie value changes, optionally returning a new value
- Javascript exec turned on/off by domain
- Access to various Javascript methods controlled by domain/path
I'm probably forgetting some things from a list I made a while back.
This is what happens when you mindlessly optimise for metrics like user signups - not surprisingly, you get more signups when you block the content with an obnoxious modal but after a few years, you wonder where all your users went. How much value do you really get from a user who was forced to sign up with a gun to their head?
Some companies don't want "users" they want paying customers. The article does not do a good job at all at explaining the context of their frustration other than "Ugh I don't like being treated like this, therefore other people don't, therefore it's bad".
I'd say the article is downright bad. It assumes there is only one use for a modal: abuse.
I use Safari and I almost always click/tap the reader view icon as soon as the page loads. This: 1) Shows the text even if a modal has already tried to obscure it. 2) Ensures a legible font and contrast. 3) Undoes stupid scroll jacking. Yay, the text scrolls smoothly again. 4) Fixes the scroll bar so that it provides an accurate indication of how far through the page I've read, since the non-text crap I don't care ab…