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Dan Gillmor Mar 5, 2024

There's epic arrogance in popups like this one from the NY Times. It's trying to get me to install the spy-on-the-user app, and the choices are:

In bold type: "Read this article in the app"

In smaller not-bold type: "Not right now"

The option I really want:

"Never, and stop bothering me"

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David

@dangillmor I finally unsubscribed. The latest poll story pushed me over the edge. It took a bit of work to get to the right page for doing this as they don’t make it easy, but when you finally get there you’re presented with a variety of choices for your rationale. I chose the “Concerns about coverage” option. Down to just the WaPo now - and I still get that in paper copy!