PSA: if your website loads for a fraction of a second, then vomits-up a fake error such as "This website cannot load because you're blocking html-load-dotcom" (or css-load-dot-com), your Web Devs are bad people and should reconsider their career decisions.

It's a deceptive design that breaks the web.

Such websites have been coded to go out of their way to create a problem, then falsely assign blame to ad blockers. It's a sleight-of-hand to trick people visiting the website to switch-off ad-blockers and weaken their security for all websites. Paying that ransom to access a website is foolish; it's better to close that browser tab and avoid returning to the problematic website.

#DeceptiveDesign #AdBlock #AdBlocker #HtmlLoadDotCom #CssLoadDotCom

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.

Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.

They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.

To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.

#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone