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The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

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Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#191
> I wanted to browse some pictures of Ollie anonymously on Instagram today, but to my dismay, Instagram would force me to login 5 seconds after navigating to Ollie’s Instagram page. Unless I’m part of an A/B test, you can give this a try and should get the same behaviour on desktop.

I don't know if it was ever A/B tested, but AFAIK this feature has been enabled for all users (all IPs?) for years.

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#192
post #30

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Hahahaha I was picturing this idea before asking tbh... We sometimes get some customers who hate the QR's, or claim not having phone/signal/whatever. I'll lend them my phone to check...

I'd refuse to touch your phone and insult you for the offer. If you don't have a paper menu the question of me giving you money is already off the table; the food is forgotten and my new mission in your restaurant is to punish you with my vindictive attitude. If enough waitresses complain about obnoxious boomers giving them grief, I think the business owner will eventually wisen up.

You're nice. I replace them with "HaCKed" videos from YouTube.

Obviously a YT vid doesn't hack anything, but it does scare the companies out of complacency when it's trivial to swap to real malware.

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#193

I had an experience like this today when I tried to use GlassDoor for the first time. As a student making my first ever job applications, I wanted to see what salaries and work environments were like at particular employers. GlassDoor did the same scroll-locking tactic (so an element zapper like Ublock Origin's wouldn't resolve the issue), instructing me to register or sign in to view any information. So I registered…

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Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#194

It's for this reason that I've burner accounts with burner emails. Recently, I got this treatment from Glassdoor, too. I've had a real account with GD, and had made some honest contributions in the past. I haven't made any contributions in a while, because I haven't had any. Now, what do I see when I go to look up something? An indismissable pop up that says "looks like you haven't contributed anything in a while. Ma…

Won't work; I made an account like 2 days ago and i got the "contribute something" popup before i could browse anything.

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#195
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old.reddit.com

"Just modify part of your URL bar every time you click a link to Reddit" falls into "F you".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#196

I had an experience like this today when I tried to use GlassDoor for the first time. As a student making my first ever job applications, I wanted to see what salaries and work environments were like at particular employers. GlassDoor did the same scroll-locking tactic (so an element zapper like Ublock Origin's wouldn't resolve the issue), instructing me to register or sign in to view any information. So I registered…

Try levels.fyi

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#198

I 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…

And at the same time many people don’t want to pay for software.

Either you pay or you are the product.

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#199

I had an experience like this today when I tried to use GlassDoor for the first time. As a student making my first ever job applications, I wanted to see what salaries and work environments were like at particular employers. GlassDoor did the same scroll-locking tactic (so an element zapper like Ublock Origin's wouldn't resolve the issue), instructing me to register or sign in to view any information. So I registered…

Try levels.fyi

I was about to say that levels blocks too but as long as you hit the "I've shared my salary" twice they let you through. Which I find acceptable since they depend so much on that a little friction is okay.

Re: The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

#200
I had something similar today with Microsoft. Just to use their OS, MS tried to force me to log into an account. After signing out and back in, I was able to bypass the prompt.
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