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Emily Velasco
carlcaulkett@Apiary Don’t get me started on websites where the input boxes for email addresses force the capitalisation of the first letter - complete and utter psychos, IMNSHO 😡
Ticktok@Apiary it's not often that I see something on the verge of value, let alone 100% agree with.
The thing that sucks is, these spaces still exist(I'm writing this comment on one!), but they're not "cool", or "popular". and I suppose if they do get "popular" the AdBro's will come a knocking. It's like chasing the edge of gentrification around the web. And self hosting is possible, but just as the author doesn't want to put in an email, friends don't want to install/learn a new app just to hang out.
The thing that sucks is, these spaces still exist(I'm writing this comment on one!), but they're not "cool", or "popular". and I suppose if they do get "popular" the AdBro's will come a knocking. It's like chasing the edge of gentrification around the web. And self hosting is possible, but just as the author doesn't want to put in an email, friends don't want to install/learn a new app just to hang out.
molly@Apiary yah, that.
Dan@Apiary precisely this
Gabriel N@Apiary the only thing I missed in this article is a mention to the Fast Company website as an example on what not to do.
Then I realized that on the web it is harder to find good experiences than bad ones.
Spike 
@Apiary Oh god, *this*. The newest horror is the BBC News website. I discovered I could kill the prompts on The Guardian by using NoScript to disable Javascript, so the page loads but the popups stop.
Mike P
PointOfNo@Apiary
We are under siege
We are under siege
James Holden@Apiary I just deleted the BBC weather app because it started insisting on me logging into it. A weather app, wanting identification, just to check the weather!
mcc
John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴@Apiary exactly this.
No I don’t want a newsletter in my email, I already have 45,000 unread items of junk mail, thanks
No I don’t want a newsletter in my email, I already have 45,000 unread items of junk mail, thanks
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@Apiary This a million times!
flutterfli007
Wade Roberts@Apiary we shouldn’t have to establish and maintain a personal relationship with product manufacturers to merely use the products we’ve bought from them, physical or software.
Kovarchi@Apiary this just makes me horrendously nostalgic for that job I had just after Y2K that was about an hours work a day and the rest spent reading free shit on the web
“Back in my day the web was a lot more fun…”
Stop That@Apiary “Register for free to continue reading—“
No. How about I click on my Unpaywall widget and not give you an email address to spam?
And no, Google, I will not log in.
dj2mn@Apiary totally that.
William Gunn@Apiary What they're mostly trying to do is to reduce their dependence on Google. If they have emails, they're not as reliant on ranking in Google or pleasing the FB algorithm. I'm sympathetic to that, but also AI is going to upset the whole ad-supported model for publishers. Every text box on the Internet in any way connected to money is going to be stuffed with such a massive volume of generated content that it makes content farms look like a quaint relic.
Tom Eston 
@Apiary Yes! No to all this and paywalls…
Steve Wildsmith@Apiary amen.
One site that triggers me is the BBC News site. It's a PUBLIC broadcaster with a charter to inform, and yet you have to put up with popups and full screen ads obscuring and interrupting the story. I just don't click now.
indyradio@Apiary Thanks. and The Verge is mostly good. I'm a tough critic, but yes, thanks. Even worse, these sites that are pwnd by google, and google didn't have to pay a dime.
pgcd
Chris Paduan@Apiary A million times this!
Julio Jimenez@Apiary I love it when someone I know sends me an article that requires login or worse, a subscription! I’m like, “wtf are you doing to me man”
Theurv 🏳️🌈@Apiary this line was perfect “The more each site tries to create its own little walled garden, the less valuable the open web becomes.”