The phenomenon he's seen is more likey the result of an overly paranoid and aggressive ant-bot algorithm. I've seen this too, but when using various devices and accidental (company machine) VPN connections.
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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#212"Wow, fuck you. I just wanted to look at cats." "Well, fuck you, too. We're here to sell ads." It's not about dark patterns, that's just a second-order effect. It was never about dark patterns. This is the implied agreement. You understand it, or you don't. And if you don't, I guess you haven't been on the web in the past decade or something. What? You thought it was fair that a company spends millions in technical i…
Kinda offtopic but Instagram's ads changed my attitude towards ads, and my attitude towards Facebook's creepy level of insight into my life and personality. If they have that data anyway -- and hundreds of companies do -- I might as well benefit from it, and Instagram's ads were the first ones that I actually found interesting. First of all, it was obvious when something was an ad. Second, they weren't intrusive or o…
Instagram ads are the most obnoxious out of all social media. When looking at stories they often come up every other user. The volume alone is absurd.
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#213I love instagram. It's the best social media site. Last time I checked, I couldn't even make an account from my desktop computer. I'm not gonna even try to install their app on my G-free phone. When a friends sends me a link to Instagram, I know that I don't need to click on it -- the thumbnail contains all the information that I'd ever see without creating an account. When news articles consist of a bunch of embedde…
> From TFA: "Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page."
You need to not only remove the modal, but remove the "overflow:hidden;" in the tag. After that you should be able to scroll.
I have CSS/JS injectors that do this for me already, I really fucking hate popups and scrolling impediments of any sort.
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#214> From TFA: "Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page."
You need to not only remove the modal, but remove the "overflow:hidden;" in the tag. After that you should be able to scroll.
I have CSS/JS injectors that do this for me already, I really fucking hate popups and scrolling impediments of any sort.
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#215Reddit is full of these patterns in order to drive users from mobile web to app. Reddit mobile web really sets the bar for user-hostile UI in my opinion.
Gmail webmail too. I’ve hit « I’m not interested » to their app prompt around 500 times in a row. Will i change the 501st? No.
Then again, my ATM machine still asks me which language I want service in. It’s my hope if I choose something other than English, it calls 9-1-1, slows down the prompts and does nothing irreversible.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest and Reddit are not better these days. The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Every time my wife sends me a Pinterest link I just ask her to screenshot it as I can't see shit on the default mobile page. I don't even know why Google continues to allow them in the results when there is clear-cut policies around showing som…
Reddit (the service) is tons better than Pinterest, facebook, instagram... I think it's totally out of line to group Reddit in with them. The new reddit website is total trash but you can use like 99% of reddit without ever visiting the website. I use Apollo for example, and there are many other apps you can use or develop your own. You can also use old.reddit.com. Access to reddit is much more open than any of these…
Reddit on desktop is still okay. The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app. Many subreddits can't be viewed, you can only view the first couple of comments in each thread, the front page is hidden behind a huge nag screen,...
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Like what? The phone browser works just great. IIRC there's a nag dialog that prompts you once to install the app, then it caches the answer and shuts up.
> The phone browser works just great. No, it is not. I can not access any subreddit without installing an app (which I am not going to do).
Really? I still occasionally visit a handful of subs, almost exclusively through android chrome. I'll certainly never download an app to do it though.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever I put a google search down, and see one page of Pinterest on there I immediately go back to the search box and go for; “-site:pinterest.*”. I absolutely hate that site with a passion.
Is there a Google option to perma-ban a domain? Maybe a place I can upload a HOSTS file? Or an extension that adds this to every search?
There is: uBlacklist[1]. I've been searching for the exact same thing to get rid of Indian tutorial scamsites, bad GitHub and StackOverflow clones and, of course, Pinterest results :) Can recommend.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
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#219Marked as "Can't reproduce" :) e.g. I can browse the cat pictures just fine
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'll eventually be removed with the reasoning that its hardly used and most traffic uses the new Reddit and now they can focus on improvements without having to support this legacy code.
And then something else will replace it. They'll digg themselves their own grave.
"digg themselves their own grave" ;)