Microblog Memes

It seems like you accidentally moved your mouse to the side of the screen, let me introduce you to some unfogettable deal, I'm pretty sure you didn't wanted to leave yet.

Oh, you clicked on the back button, but fortunately we can override that, so you can enjoy another popup before we allow you to go back to That other website.

Oh you closed that? Yeah, we're just going to hide the rest of the article and show you links to other articles so we can show you that pop-up again.

People are fucking weird, dude. I used to be a professional blogger. I never put any pop-ups or subscription bullshit on my website because I am really opposed to that shit, even though "the money is in the list". As an experiment one time I put a sign up on the homepage temporarily. I didn't offer anything. I didn't have any snazzy sales lingo. It just said "Sign up to be notified when new posts are published". I got hundreds of sign-ups per day from real people. I guess in this case it made a little sense, since they were quality articles written by a human who was passionate about the subject, but still! Stop giving your email address to everyone, ya flipping weirdos!

I grew up with computers and the internet, i learned from a young age to never click on pop ups, never use your real name or adress, have a burner e-mail, spot a scam and things like that. My friends were pretty much the same, because we all shared knowledge. When i was 20 or so i went to a friends house whom i only knew for a year. We used his family computer to book a flight or something. I never witnessed such horror. The computer was sloooooow as fuck, and riddled with every virus on the planet. Watching him use that computer was painful. It took like 5 minutes to load a website, in the meantime he was playing pop up pool, played a pop up roulette wheel and looked at pop up ads. It was something i never even imagined, because i assumed everyone would avoid these like the pest.

There are a select few where I want notifications. Basically email, chat, calendar... and nothing else.

Same, if I was to draw a Venn diagram of “websites I visit” and “notifications I need”, the circles would be so far apart they’d be at opposite ends of the universe.

Browsers should make that feature much easier to fully disable. Same goes for location data, which an alarming amount of websites now seem to request despite having no need for it.

How long has YouTube been around now, we fucking know how it works, yes like and subscribe.

Why the fuck does YouTube insist people keep parroting that same shit over and over again.

Can you imagine how much storage space they would save if everyone didn’t need to upload that same damn phrase in literally every video.

The irony is that if they put it at or near the end of the video, after I have learned that I like whatever I watched, I am much more likely to do so, because I often really do just forget to like things, and a reminder near the end would in fact make me go 'yeah, this was good, I'll do that'.

But if they ask me to do it at the beginning, I won't do it until I have seen enough to decide I do in fact like it.

I've already left and found another video by that point. But I only use YouTube to learn specific tasks, not as entertainment.

I mean, if you've been using a site regularly for a while, the idea of a newsletter may become more relevant for you. That would require cookies so the usual cookie blockers would kill that too.

I'm old enough to remember when pop-up blockers blocked pop-ups.

I mean, I think that on basically any advertisement I see. "Why the fuck does anyone buy this shit? It is a literal attempt to get at your money".

But here we are, ads are everywhere and possibly the most pervasive and intrusive concept we have ever come up with as a species. They get crammed into everything, seep into every place they weren't before, despite people overwhelmingly hating them.

Yet someone must be eating them up.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-sign-in-popup-blocker/