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mathew

Every web site I go to these days:

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Tom Sellers

@mathew Close, but the button to decline says “No thanks”

Always hated having to “thank” them for interrupting me..

mkj

@TomSellers No, no, you've got the interpretation of that one all wrong. It's "I elect to give you no thanks", not "no, but thanks".

@mathew

Thanasis Kinias

@mathew
if I get in the way of what you’re trying to do consistently enough, maybe you’ll sign up for spam!

EndlessMason

Don't fall for it, the popup doesn't know if you're subscribed or not.

@tkinias @mathew

LadyUnicornEJG

@EndlessMason @tkinias @mathew I was thinking the "allow notifications" popups instead of subscribe to our spam mail list.

Ladimir Kwiatkowski

@tkinias @mathew How far we’ve gone from, “Your ideas intrigue me; I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.”

Ben Brockert

@mathew Then another dialog from the top of the screen: click 'allow' to be notified of future opportunities to be kicked in the nuts

Ash_Crow

@mathew the new version of it lately is "you can access the content for free if you accept to get kicked in the nuts by us and our 855 partners, or pay a 10€/month subscription"

Leonard Ritter

@mathew "I'm going deeper underground / there's too much enshittification in this town" -- Jamiroquai

серафими многоꙮчитїи

@mathew lmao, I just switched to this tab, so your image looked like an actual popup....

... and I nearly clicked "Maybe later" on autopilot

IPng Networks

@mathew @claushc I instinctively clicked maybe later. The pattern works!!

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

@mathew That whole "Maybe later" thing is incredibly gross. It's very strong evidence that techbros do *not* understand consent at all.

Steve Popovich

@ZDL @mathew yeah, there needs to be an "over my dead body" button, for when you are never, ever, ever, going to give consent; which is about 99.9% of the time.

Metalpoet :pentagram:

@mathew give them a year and the "Maybe" will get removed from the second button.

Another year and it is "Later but twice as hard".

BDSM-Rezo

@Buster this screenshot has a different meaning for some of us, especially on woof.group 🙃

ozeng

@mathew *immediate popup* “Subscribe for more of this website!”
“But I haven’t even seen what your website offers yet”
“Subscribe for more!!”

ozeng

@mathew also “please disable your nut protection barrier such that you will feel the full glorious force of our boot”

Ben Cardoen

@mathew Kidding aside, plugins like consent-o-matic remove a lot of this kind of cruft , in combination with ublock origin you end up with a fairly usable internet consentomatic.au.dk/

DELETED

@mathew That's why I've taken to wearing a spiked codpiece. They won't kick twice, at least not with the same foot.

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John Maxwell

@mathew - Seriously. That should be very niche porn sites only.

🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣

@MaltaGraphics Oh yeah sure… Instead of using a decent browser and blocking annoying popups with the only tracker/ad-blocker that actually works (uBlock Origin), use the fraud that's called "brave"… Great idea!

@mathew

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@mathew @pluralistic and now you know why I kick said websites in the groin by using @torproject / #TorBrowser as a middle finger!

laus

@mathew es gibt das kreuzchen zum wegklicken meistens nicht mehr

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@MichaelPorter @mathew

And "Review preferences" takes you to a section that lists "Essential nut kicking" with a toggle that's turned on but greyed out so you can't change it.

Jessamyn

@mathew Same. And I don't even have any nuts!

Liz Cray

@mathew how many times can I spam "now"?
*New bottom surgery just dropped* 🏳️‍⚧️

💀Maggot McFear💀

@mathew and no option for "punched in the tits".

Colleen

@mathew WEBSITES DESIGNED BY FUCKING MEN who don’t understand consent.

Now, maybe later? GONNA CHOOSE BEAR. FINAL ANSWER

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

@mathew uBlacklist is great. If I get a website that has an anti-adblocker wall, I just block that site from my search results and never see it again ✨

github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Neil Bartlett 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@mathew This list of 350 companies believe they have a legitimate interest in kicking you in the nuts. Deselect each one individually if you prefer your nuts left unkicked.

FoolishOwl

@mathew I'm enjoying going through cookie management dialogues where I try to specify that I want the cookies that make the site work, but none of the marketing and tracking, and definitely not the one where I sell ineluctable ineffables to L. Morningstar, LLC.

Somehow I always fail to enable the cookie that records my cookie settings.

(And I'm already using a Firefox add-on to manage cookies, that rarely works,)

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