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Jyrki :jyrki:🐾:heart_nb:

death to all websites that display 50000 different in-page pop-ups just to be annoying as fuck

- no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies;
- no, i do not want to sign up for your newsletter;
- no, i will not disable my malware/adblocker;
- no, i will not enable push notifications;
- i don’t give a damn that you changed your “privacy” policy, this is the first time i viewed opened your website anyway;
- i don’t care if this site looks better in the app, fix your fucking website then;
- oh, i need chrome to view this page? what year are we in, 2000?;
- i no longer want to read the full article if it means i have to create account;
- and no, i do not want to sign in with my nonexistent google account either

for fucks sake

15 Oct 2023 at 15:57 | Open on pounced-on.me
58 comments
Andy

@nilsding you know what's even funnier?

when you disable JS and the site works as expected.

some even have the premium thing only in JS, meaning you can circumvent that.

15 Oct 2023 at 15:58 | Open on desu.social
Russ Sharek

@pixel @nilsding

Unfortunately I've run into a equal number of websites which fail spectacularly when js, adblock, etc are disabled.

15 Oct 2023 at 17:23 | Open on mastodon.art
Andy

@RussSharek @nilsding most are clever about it, but the occassional outlier that just has easy to bypass paywalls is fun.

15 Oct 2023 at 17:24 | Open on desu.social
Russ Sharek

@pixel @nilsding

Agreed on loving the sport, though at times I simply want to whatever it is I'm doing and get on with it.

15 Oct 2023 at 17:38 | Open on mastodon.art
DanCrescentWolf
SPICY EVIL TINY 🎄:yell: 🎃

@nilsding pay 1,99€ a month pls?
:floshd: 👉🏻👈🏻

15 Oct 2023 at 16:17 | Open on plush.city
SPICY EVIL TINY 🎄:yell: 🎃

@nilsding 15% off for new customers! Sign up for newsletter pls :ablobcathappypaws:

15 Oct 2023 at 18:01 | Open on plush.city
Peter :antifa: 💉x4 🧷

@nilsding

> no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies

I love #Geizhals so much for this. Just a single Popup on a timer '"Do not Track"-Mode detected. We will only store necessary cookies.'

15 Oct 2023 at 16:20 | Open on chaos.social
Gold gab ich für Eisen

@pludikovsky @nilsding which kind of "necessary" cookies could ever be if you don't log in there, just read the info from it?

15 Oct 2023 at 22:10 | Open on c.im
William Conner

@nilsding AMEN! Cannot move away from that kind of site fast enough.

15 Oct 2023 at 16:46 | Open on mastodon.social
Nuncio Bitis ✷ ✅ 🏳️‍🌈

@nilsding
The news nowadays:
Header, Title, first paragraph all say the same thing.
5 commercials
A quote
1 commercial
Another couple sentences
An ad
One sentence
A half-page ad
A sentence
2 ads
A conclusion
50 pages of ads

15 Oct 2023 at 16:51 | Open on mstdn.social
James

@nuncio @nilsding

I was reading the Salt Lake Tribune online (pointed to by a Reddit blog). Adware said 106 Ads, trackers, and pop-ups. Brave browser reported 19 trackers.

I don't know what that is, but it ain't news.

15 Oct 2023 at 17:54 | Open on mastodon.online
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

@JHB17 @nuncio @nilsding I only use the Brave browser to visit news sites these days. It blocks enough of the pop-ups to make most sites readable. Don’t tell anyone, but it also blocks ads on YouTube.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Tucker's Balz 4 Harris/Walz

@EricFielding @JHB17 @nuncio @nilsding
🥥 Your secret is safe with me, Dr Eric! 🥥

15 Oct 2023 at 22:04 | Open on mstdn.social
Jeph :verified:

@EricFielding @JHB17 @nuncio @nilsding If you use Firefox, one of my favorite extensions is 'Auto Skip Youtube Ads' which isn't a blocker, instead it clicks skip ad the second it appears automagically.

15 Oct 2023 at 22:09 | Open on social.xcetera.biz
mariskus🏳️‍⚧️

@nuncio @nilsding don't forget that the article is ai generated as well

15 Oct 2023 at 18:43 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy

@nilsding

Also tell us your location! No? Can we send you push notifications? Maybe later??

15 Oct 2023 at 17:18 | Open on mastodon.social
Danny Boling ☮️

@jamiemccarthy

It's the "maybe later" thing that drives me nuts. I turned off notifications in settings but when websites bypass that with the "maybe later" thing, it defeats the whole purpose for turning notifications off to begin with. ggrrr.

@nilsding

15 Oct 2023 at 19:09 | Open on mstdn.social
kel

@nilsding

Just enable 'reader mode' by default and all this stuff disappears!

15 Oct 2023 at 17:22 | Open on mastodon.online
acm
Shannon Skinner (she/her)

@nilsding
Can someone put music to this and make it our new national anthem?

15 Oct 2023 at 17:34 | Open on c.im
Jyrki :jyrki:🐾:heart_nb:
Omnivore

@shansterable @nilsding

I was hearing "No Scrubs" by TLC while reading this. Need to work on the scansion a bit.

15 Oct 2023 at 20:29 | Open on hear-me.social
B4444 "Forfor" 🐝 🔜 MCFC

@nilsding I will never not be mad at the enshittification of the web

15 Oct 2023 at 17:37 | Open on floofy.tech
Easelbitch™️ :verified: 🕉️
Mina

@nilsding

You forgot:

I don't want to get push messages from this site.

15 Oct 2023 at 17:45 | Open on berlin.social
Beko Pharm

@nilsding so much this.

One of the reasons mine humbly asks you to ENABLE an ad blocker 😁

15 Oct 2023 at 17:57 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Lstn2urmama
The Filth Hound

@nilsding well said, l hate how websites and corporations are always pushing to use the app, fuck that.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Mycotropic

@nilsding

I'm also not interested in a car wash either.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:13 | Open on geekdom.social
Victoria M Adams

@nilsding I'm kind of digging this version of TLC's No Scrubs

15 Oct 2023 at 18:23 | Open on mas.to
Alan Langford

@nilsding This has made me think about creating a brand spanking new Google account (in a private/ingognito window) every single time I get asked to log in with my Google account...

15 Oct 2023 at 18:34 | Open on mindly.social
Maholmire
Me when trying to generate some quick and dirty AI art for shitposting on Fediverse.
15 Oct 2023 at 18:35 | Open on crlf.ninja
Jennifer

@nilsding yesssss. Also, if you embed 15 ads in the text I'm probably going to stop reading.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:35 | Open on bookstodon.com
CoolBlenderKitten
Neblib 🥥🌴

@nilsding noscript / scriptsafe does wonders. If basic content doesn't load after enabling their own site, I drop.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:52 | Open on mastodo.neoliber.al
Neblib 🥥🌴

@nilsding that being said, even some of the worst offenders suprisingly still have a decent RSS or Atom feed with actual content.

15 Oct 2023 at 18:54 | Open on mastodo.neoliber.al
Niavy :bearn: :verified:

@nilsding @nitot have you ever heard about our Lord Holy "Consent-o-Matic" browser extension ?

15 Oct 2023 at 19:02 | Open on masto.bike
Erik Ableson

@nilsding I’m getting close to the point of auto addding these sites to my pihole just so I don’t get angry every time a link takes me there. I’d rather have a connection failure

15 Oct 2023 at 19:11 | Open on mastodon.infrageeks.social
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann

@nilsding this can't make me move fast enough to gemini.
Good Lord. This cripples every website so much it makes me want to stop working in tech.

I'm not so much a "it was better before", but, it was wayyyyy better before. So much cognitive load just for a stupid article.

15 Oct 2023 at 19:12 | Open on hachyderm.io
www.bloodoutofstone.com

@nilsding can be such a headache, same thing rejecting cookie consent on news articles, the number of businesses that get a legitimate interest option mean that constantly being vigilant means your time is stolen or your data, either / or.

15 Oct 2023 at 19:12 | Open on mas.to
Evan Beaver

@nilsding What about notifications about other stuff customers just bought? Need popups for that or nah?

15 Oct 2023 at 19:19 | Open on mastodon.social
David J. Atkinson #🟦
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@nilsding

I am not really pedantic (!) but that was nine very good reasons that I thoroughly support, but I am just wondering when you are going to post the other 49, 991 reasons?

I wholeheartedly support the nine that you have posted though. 😀

15 Oct 2023 at 19:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Soweli Lili

@nilsding I have discovered that pages from a simple-looking magazine web site are actually over 80% non-visible stuff like scripts to do popups and menus, and SVG code for clever logos. And trying to replicate styles from print layouts, like side boxes with quotes in them.

15 Oct 2023 at 19:53 | Open on climatejustice.social
Bill Hooker
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@nilsding Bypass Paywalls Clean is a great extension

15 Oct 2023 at 20:09 | Open on bitbang.social
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

@nilsding number 3 is a great reason to block the website forever from my search results.

15 Oct 2023 at 20:09 | Open on greennuclear.online
gadgetoid

@nilsding preach! I not only deleted all JavaScript from my site, but I added an origin policy explicitly disabling it on behalf of users- just in case some gets leaked/hacked into it 🤣

15 Oct 2023 at 20:51 | Open on fosstodon.org
TeddyKlugs

@nilsding
Yes, yes, YES, to every one of these! So tedious! Do the creators of these annoying sites ever actually surf the web? 🤔

15 Oct 2023 at 21:05 | Open on mastodon.social
DirtWood
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@nilsding These days I mostly don't bother with web sites which don't have a "reject all" button as the only thing that needs clicking before the text can be read.

15 Oct 2023 at 21:53 | Open on c.im
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@nilsding What would be better would be if I could set a "reject all" option in the browser, so that web sites didn't even need to ask me.

15 Oct 2023 at 21:54 | Open on c.im
gak 🦀👾🌌☕

@nilsding When I see a full screen popup, I just close the tab. It’s easier to close the tab.

15 Oct 2023 at 22:04 | Open on zoot.fun
Cyborg Medusa

@nilsding don't forget the chat bots and other chat pop ups 🫨

15 Oct 2023 at 22:34 | Open on social.targaryen.house
MajorDouble

@nilsding I blame @mkennedy for being triggered by this post. 😤

15 Oct 2023 at 22:51 | Open on mastodon.social
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