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Peter Ritchie🌍🍁It's funny because it's true
Alyssa Voronin@peterritchie And you can't click the close ad button, until you've solved its wave equation (to prove you're human!).
XxPppp678Xx@peterritchie agree mobile games always have this problem
Kevin McFadden@peterritchie Shown but not visible: the unsubscribe link in emails
Mark Gardner@n3bulous @peterritchie Gray-on-gray text
LimaJ@peterritchie dont get me started on mobile like my fingers are already too big 😭 and the fake close ad buttons too that take you right to their playstore page so annoying
Gabriel N@peterritchie it would be nice to have a small animation of this cartoon, consisting of a fast pullback that reveals a ginormous green ball, moon sized, described as “Ad blocker”.
Martin@peterritchie Yes but the close ad button has an additional opacity of 50% usually.
Lux 
@peterritchie could you please edit your alt? The info that these are listed from biggest to smallest is missing.
Cegorach@peterritchie that has got to be some kind of exponential/logarithmic scale!
Kai Rüsberg 
Cody Boone Ferguson@Ruhrnalist @peterritchie I'm too tired to make a further mod: but the close button should be cropped out. Since often it doesn't even exist. Or it takes you to where they want. I have no sympathy for ads. It's not my fault people have failing business models. Throw in malvertisements and resource wastage and it's even worse. I have a rather large DNSBL and ad blockers. They can piss off. Google ads even allows people to spoof their websites, last I knew, to trick unsuspecting visitors.
Alicia Adams@peterritchie, hopefully this pattern will die soon. Depending on how it's implemented, it's illegal in any country that bases its accessibility laws on the international guidelines (WCAG) because it makes the ad harder to closer for people with tremors or other mobility impairments.
Michael Vilain
Very Human Robot@peterritchie
I add a fake close ad button to the picture in my ad so people click it and go to my site.
I am very smart.
I add a fake close ad button to the picture in my ad so people click it and go to my site.
I am very smart.
mmu_man@peterritchie well it's still larger than the "refuse" button on the Windows EULA…
Count To Zen
Kevin Karhan 
@mlohbihler @peterritchie I just want #PopUps And #Ads to be banned entirely!
- Maybe mandating them to be opt-in and have the close button take at least 50% the size of it.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesThat's not a "close ad button" that's a star that is suspiciously close to where the close ad button should be...
The close ad button appears after few seconds, wafting in from another dimension at 30% opacity
KanaMauna@peterritchie
And if you manage to click that button, there’s an even smaller button waiting for you to select.
And if you manage to click that button, there’s an even smaller button waiting for you to select.
mirabilos@peterritchie the button is larger, its hitbox however, especially for fingers on capacitive glass… 🤬
NotARobot@peterritchie And they interact about as much as neutrinos.
Cameron
James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺@peterritchie Of course in reality the close-ad button exists more in a probability cloud - it may be here, it may be there, it may be clicked it may not be - who knows?
Laurens@peterritchie Close-ad-buttons? I almost never encounter them. The fact that I don't use apps but their browser equivalents, including on my phone, means I can use ad- and tracking blockers as well. Thanks, Firefox (and their forks)! 🙂
Igor Jagec 
@peterritchie the funny thing is: it's more true than funny, lol
〜JÄŶ・ŤĦ3・K1ŁŁ3R〜@peterritchie bruhhh that’s so true tho
Florian GeierstangerWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on any kind of device (including desktops, laptops, kiosks, and mobile devices). Following these guidelines will also often make web content more usable to users in general.
Edbro@peterritchie The close ad button is a bit smaller than that :P
@edbro It's hard to make fun of something if you can't see it in the image :P
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@peterritchie And then they complain about adblockers "Using adblocks is stealing" but apparently screweding people devices with malware and portable devices datapaln and battery with CPU intensive spying and ad-displaying crap without consent is somehow acceptable if you do as a for-profit company…
Just like with Large Lying Model Artificial Stupidity… Anything for profit, capitalism surveillance and/or texhnofascism makes it somehow acceptable to steal others people's work…
@devnull @vincentxavier How the layers of infrastructure do or don't deliver their content is out of their control. Most people don't know how to filter content before it reaches the browser, the fact that it can also be filtered in the browser makes no difference.
@peterritchie They don't need to filter anything out. They're not supposed to execute trackers code by default at all, to begin with.
The problem is: They load trackers (HTTP requests to tracking scripts, sending hidden pixels, tracking cookies…) by default, not conditionally, inside some kind of
if userConsent == True
....loadTrackingCrap()
....else
…
To put it bluntly, if they copy-pasta trackers code they can't understand, with decorative "consent form", it's not my problem
@peterritchie They either respect consent OR they don't use trackers at all.
Not sorry but they don't know how filter stuff they're not supposed to load at all in the 1st place, but still do for profit, is NOT a valid excuse…
Especially since they actually know how to block access to services when you fight back… They're are ill-intentionned on purpose.
For instance the super aggressive scripts "disable adblocker". Also trackers mixed with legimate source code needed for
@peterritchie to achieve whatever the websites users are asking for.
For example, on LaPoste (French postal service) website, for a long time, users couldn't track shipments or tracked letters because the JS code managing the client-sidr rending was mixed with TagCommander tarcking in way that when TagCommander domaine is blocked by any anti-tracker, the legitimate code can't be executed without errors.
The legitimate code crashes due to "TC" variable being undefined. "TC" variable is nothing useful, it's just TagCommander crap
Not only such dark pattern is unacceptable on any kind of website but it's even more unacceptable on LaPoste website.
Cause shipment/letter tracking is a serivce you pay extra money for, compared to non-tracked, but can't use it unless you accept spyware from a marketing surveillance US company that doesn't care about GDPR… Unacceptable!
It took litterally MONTHS before they stopped. First I was to lazy to file complain since it's a long process and French DPA is "pro-business" and way too permissive with for profit surveillance capitalism bullshit. Then I was about to file a GDPR complain but I noticed they stopped doing it.
They probably didn't stop out of pure altruism… I guess someone else did file a complain before me and the DPA did it's job, like they happen to do once in a while…
nLupo 
@peterritchie Actually there are fake close buttons which is worse.
Cyan (aq)@peterritchie electron should be the heaviest 💢