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It must be worth a lot for me to see it, because if I land on a site shopping for something, I might just turn around when you interrupt me and force me to actively not sign up for your email list.
If everyone refused to touch a site that blasts you with a dickover, they would disappear overnight. Clearly people do not do this enough, because it's still being implemented.
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> If someone is allowed to shove something in front of my face should I not be allowed to make them invisible? Yes, I'm 100% on the adblock train. Local AI adblock sounds like a great solution. Then maybe dickovers will go away when the market realizes they don't work. That's the only way. What won't help is complaining that the largely free products we get don't work the way we want them to.
>What won't help is complaining that the largely free products we get don't work the way we want them to. This makes no sense and seems bad-faith on multiple levels.
They're done for a reason, and that reason is not pure evil from their perspective.
Did you know that a Substack's author can turn the annoying popup off? Go to dashboard -> settings, and then it's "Enable subscribe prompts on post page" under "Growth." It's the first thing I did. Recommended.
I’m just kind of surprised that it works to convert people.
Or…maybe it doesn’t?
Some of these things that we have are just common practices that owners of websites do that are seemingly done automatically without much thought to the experience.
I have a theory that about 97% of developers and managers completed the cookie consent (or whatever) on their own product 5 years ago and hence never see it again, and they have no idea how bad the experience for new customers actually is. So the developers and bosses all think they're doing a great job and they've got a carefully curated homepage, even though the regular users get a cloudflare captcha, then a cookie…
[ ] Yes
[ ] Maybe later