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Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by brador »

dirtyaura wrote: post #19
jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

It's super-annoying, but the easiest alternative is to wait that the page has loaded and click Safari's Reader button. It doesn't matter that the page is showing the iPad ad at the same time, the content is still there but hidden.

You can click the X to stop page load once the article has loaded up.

That's the X on the address bar that's a refresh circle icon as you read this.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by [deleted] »

neilk wrote: post #5

Some of this seems evil to me, some of it doesn't. It is likely that many people really are searching for the button that allows them to fucking play the game. (The people joining Facebook now must be the trailing end of the trailing end of computer-savviness.) On the other hand, Facebook has decided not to try to educate these users any more. They wash their hands of the whole affair. Funny, now it's obvious that th…

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Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by sp332 »

sgdesign wrote: post #15

This is a small nit-pick, but I feel like the word "design" gets thrown around a lot these days, until it doesn't even mean anything anymore. I would expect a "design trick" to be using color, contrast, or typography to achieve a result. If getting rid of the "don't allow" button counts as "design", then I wonder if "design" has become too broad a term to still be useful.

Considering which buttons your site needs, and where to place them, is arguably more "design" than the font of the text on them.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

Can you imagine walking up to a guy on the street and saying something like "Hey there. If you tell me the names and contact information for all of your friends, the conversations you've had with them, the type of products you like, your occupation and lots of other demographic information? I'll let you play this little game with bottle caps"

Yet to many technologists working on the internet this seems like a perfectly reasonable trade to ask people to make.

So are people aware of what they are doing and are making a fair trade? Or are we taking advantage of folks simply because the technology is new?

There is a moral component to modern software development. Many of us technology folks don't like to talk about it, but simply because we don't talk about it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by pajju »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

You must stop page loading, but you must act fast - i.e Press fast, stop loading button in your iPad broswer/chrome.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by thinkingisfun »

neilk wrote: post #5

Some of this seems evil to me, some of it doesn't. It is likely that many people really are searching for the button that allows them to fucking play the game. (The people joining Facebook now must be the trailing end of the trailing end of computer-savviness.) On the other hand, Facebook has decided not to try to educate these users any more. They wash their hands of the whole affair. Funny, now it's obvious that th…

Funny, now it's obvious that they could have been that evil to start with. I wonder what's changed.

Time passed. Like someone who first makes lewd remarks, doesn't encounter (enough) resistance, then tries for a grope.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by trekkin »

Steko wrote: post #6
jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

Apple should threaten action on any media company app whose corresponding website has an egregious iOS device only popup. That or enable desktop user agent reporting via a toggle ala third party browser apps Atomic and Sleipnir.

Why would Apple do that? The website promotes Apple's appstore, which can cross/up sell other stuff that Apple receives money from...

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by SquareWheel »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

If you're using Chrome, you should be able to "request the desktop version", which I expect changes your user agent and stops the popup.

Re: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

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Post by zerostar07 »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days? I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article. I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from tech…

There is a 'click here to continue' link in white link but it has been (intentionally?) blended into the screenshot image. Even so, clicking the link does not make the nag go away. So basically i can't read TC on the ipad
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