Joby (chaotic good)Feb 3

Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

I DO NOT WANT TO TRY CHROME.

I DO NOT WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE BACK TO THE DEFAULT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE TO YOURS.

I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY LOCATION.

I DO NOT WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO ONE SINGLE NEWSLETTER EVER.

I DO NOT WANT NOTIFICATIONS.

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE.

Show threadEndlessMason

@joby

"Would you like to subscribe to our email news letter before even reading the article you came here to read?"

I would not.

Feb 3 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadJoby (chaotic good)Feb 3
@EndlessMason omg I somehow forgot about newsletters
Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 3
@joby
It's easy to forget about them when you've got 25 cosmetic filter lists installed across 4 different content filtering extensions
Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 3
@joby
screaming "witness me" after trying the chrome
Show threadHanna-Karin GrensmanFeb 7

@EndlessMason @joby Yes! Why _before_?

*frantically double-checking that my own newsletter popup comes after a resonable amount of time on the site 😅*

Pro-tip: If you're using Brave as your browser, you can make a setting that stops them from popping up altogether.

Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 7

@Grensman @joby
You're telling me that you have, on your own site, a behaviour that you personally run a blocker for?

That's doesn't strike me as empathetic behaviour.

Show threadHanna-Karin GrensmanFeb 7

@EndlessMason @joby Well, no. I don't like newletters personally. Not because they're necessarily bad, but because the ones I do sigh up for, I never get around to read. Others think differently.

If people visit the particular site in question, they come for a reason, most often for information about certain topics. Giving them the option of getting more of that content as a collection is a service to those who like information that way.

I don't have more than like 2 000 recipients, but I have about a 95% CTR. And if you don't open them twice in a row, you'll have to reconfirm your interest. If not, you won't receive them anymore. So, I'm not exactly intrusive.

I'd rather say it's a good thing that the people who like newletters can sign up, and those who don't can refrain from it. To ones their own.

Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 7
@Grensman @joby
I don't follow.
Show threadHanna-Karin GrensmanFeb 7
@EndlessMason @joby People are different. I don't want newsletters, others do. So, why not give those people what they want, rather than what I want?
Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 7
@Grensman @joby
Which of them want a light box popping up while they're reading the article?
Show threadHanna-Karin GrensmanFeb 8

@EndlessMason @joby The subscribers I have, I presume. And also, the ones actually signing up to newsletters in general from pop-ups.

However, I do get your point, and I would indeed prefer another solution. But since I'm not making any money of it, it's not a top priority to invest the time it would take me to do it the way I would prefer.

Also, anyone who doesn't like it can easily make all of the pop-ups disappear. So it's not like it's a huge problem.