Given that my browser window is open, when I click on a link.
Then I see a cookie privacy notice;
then I see a request to allow notification from website;
then I see request to disclose location;
then I see banner advertising;
then I see subscribe to our newsletter popup;
then I hear subscription trial message.
When I close the given browser tab,
then I see a popup dialog confirming that I want to leave.
I do like how they first keep stressing how much this is in the interest of the user (free value, great deal, etc etc) only to talk about "not subjecting the user to more advertising" in the last sentence of that paragraph.
Indeed, this is why my phone and mac volume meters are always set at the minimum, and I "opt-in" to audio by increasing the volume when I have the desire to listen to whatever the audio output is at that time.
Lord, I'm tired of people whining about the web and doing nothing, not disabling JS, not blocking ads via even a trivial hosts file, disabling cookies to prevent easy tracking, nothing.
What's sadder than the web is people who can't be bothered to take any responsibility for how the web is presented to them.
Yes, I'm angry. I've even contacted website maintainers to pressure them over this.
Ach, I have lost faith in people. They want nice things without doing any work for it.
Autoplaying video is enough to make me close a tab immediately, even with Chrome's merciful mute-by-default setting. I understand that some amount of advertisement is required for the content to be free, but this attention warfare is disgusting.
Oh, and you forgot the survey that pops up before you've even read the article.
Not sure what you mean. There are no ads on the engineering blog, we don't have a newsletter, and we don't request location information or launch any confirmation dialogs.
If you're talking about a Genius song page, we still don't do anything you said except for showing ads, and playing the subscription message after you've listened to a 30s song preview.
I am sorry that you didn't get the joke. It is not about your website specifically, but web in general.
I see what you did as a dark pattern, it is going to inspire many internet marketers that only care about conversions, their funnels, and things to brag about to their peers. I bet the web will be invested with these things, resulting in a crappier user experience. But that doesn't matter right!? ...as long as the conversion rates are good. Sigh...
Well, the voice tells you that it is a 3 months free trial, the text tells you nothing.
Actually it is worse than that: The voice tells you what happens if you press the button, and the benefit to you (you will sign up to listen to 50 million songs, first 3 months are free), while the text on the button tells you something that is not going to happen (it says you will hear the whole song, but you won't hear music when clicking)
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 54.2 ms ] threadThen I see a cookie privacy notice; then I see a request to allow notification from website; then I see request to disclose location; then I see banner advertising; then I see subscribe to our newsletter popup; then I hear subscription trial message.
When I close the given browser tab, then I see a popup dialog confirming that I want to leave.
The web is getting sadder and sadder...
> After all, you can close your eyes, but you can’t close your ears.
I do like how they first keep stressing how much this is in the interest of the user (free value, great deal, etc etc) only to talk about "not subjecting the user to more advertising" in the last sentence of that paragraph.
Which narrative is it now?
Lord, I'm tired of people whining about the web and doing nothing, not disabling JS, not blocking ads via even a trivial hosts file, disabling cookies to prevent easy tracking, nothing. What's sadder than the web is people who can't be bothered to take any responsibility for how the web is presented to them.
Yes, I'm angry. I've even contacted website maintainers to pressure them over this. Ach, I have lost faith in people. They want nice things without doing any work for it.
Oh, and you forgot the survey that pops up before you've even read the article.
If you're talking about a Genius song page, we still don't do anything you said except for showing ads, and playing the subscription message after you've listened to a 30s song preview.
I see what you did as a dark pattern, it is going to inspire many internet marketers that only care about conversions, their funnels, and things to brag about to their peers. I bet the web will be invested with these things, resulting in a crappier user experience. But that doesn't matter right!? ...as long as the conversion rates are good. Sigh...
It's good to be an Apple partner.
Actually it is worse than that: The voice tells you what happens if you press the button, and the benefit to you (you will sign up to listen to 50 million songs, first 3 months are free), while the text on the button tells you something that is not going to happen (it says you will hear the whole song, but you won't hear music when clicking)
In other words: useless.