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Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
Lol a few years ago I did a full-page capture of a web article. 60% of space is just ads, with actual content sprinkled among the minefield. The rate has only worsened since then.
The very last thing that I saw on this site got me to laugh out loud. I'll leave it at that to not ruin it. Genius.
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IMHO, it should be there as soon as you arrive on the site and then reappear on every page load.
And if you click past it to remain on the web version, you're presented with truncated lists ("Download App to read the rest!") or a slew of missing features. I have an old Instagram account that I created over 10 years ago. At the time, I used it for the photo filters. Never cared about the social networking aspect. Just a month ago I logged into it for the first time in forever, and realized I wanted to delete thos…
I opened the link, saw the article, and was trying to figure out what point was trying to be made. Then I opened it in incognito mode and it was making a point about the commoditization of the web. Just use browser extensions, folks.
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A website is a tool, a means to an end. The purpose of chat popups or feedback forms is to further a business goal, not to increase the website's usability.
Is the business goal to get you to click the back button?
That being said, the value that these patterns are gaining the businesses that employ them, must outweigh the value lost from people who are so annoyed that they take their business elsewhere.
It is how it is, unfortunately.
I have much more appreciation for Brave today and how it molds my daily browsing experience.
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No, the business goal is to lie, trick, cheat and steal, to fuck a potential customer over so they part with their money. That the customer may not be satisfied afterwards doesn't matter - there are plenty of mitigation strategies, such as lock-in effects, playing off sunk cost fallacy, or drowning negative feedback on third-party sites with bought ratings, reviews and social media likes. Seeing a site like this shou…
You clearly don't understand capitalism. The business just provided the most value™ to the customer at that moment in time
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Money. The web was great until someone said "I love this, but how do we make money with it?"
Nothing on the internet is free and has never been. If it appears free that's because somebody pays for it with time, money, hardware, or lost opportunities.
Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking calls.
After all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".