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They forgot the last step: delete the promo emails from the company you never signed up for
Website wants to know your location
Using webmail can be avoided, but agreed on the rest.
PS: It gets worse when you use a script blocker and have to figure out which scripts are needed per website.
Not gonna lie, this ain’t wrong.
Don’t forget to reject notifications.
Realize that you have an ordered there in a while and you moved since the last time you ordered, you updated your billing address but it didn’t update the shipping address product is now headed toward your old house.
Who knew Yahoo! in its prime would be peak Internet.
Web rings were peak Internet. And files being found via FTP search.
I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker. Now we are bombarded by popups, but inside the website instead of new windows. The most annoying part is the times delay on them. When the page is loaded, you want to click on a link, but a fraction of a second before you click a promotion pops up and you click on that. Or the Google ads when searching. Click result… Oh no, the ads loaded in, I clicked on an ad instead. Fuck you.
The amount of effort you need to put in to get the info you want. So annoying! They try so hard to keep you on their website as well. When I want to know a shortcut in excel:
- search for the shortcut
- missclick an ad
- try again
- find page with info
- close cookies
- close promotion
- need to login for info, go back to Google and try again
- close cookies
- close promotion
- start reading…
- info about what excel is used for
- history of excel
- story about the many shortcuts excel has
- close popup for newsletter
- story about different key on keaybord for windows and Apple
- story about why you would need this action you’re searching for
- buildup to explanation what the actual shortcut is
- close promotion
- close another newsletter pupup
- finally the shortcut you’re searching for. FFS
I think most of this could be avoided if you used ublock origin
PSA. It’s disabled on Chrome now. Switch to Firefox (still looking for a better alternative myself with recent FF news though.)
It’s something I’ve been putting off. But chrome is unusable now. So many ads. I’m sure there is a workaround but just like leaving reddit it’s a good time for me to find a chrome alternative.
I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker
Wait what happened to pop up blockers in your mind?
We have driver’s licence as an app in norway. I was on my way into a pub where I was asked by a bouncer to show ID. I forgot my physical wallet with physical ID, so the dance started:
- Unlock phone.
- Find app.
- App requires national login. Enter personal number (Norwegian SSN)
- National login has 2FA via another app. Open that to confirm.
- National login requires password. My password is in a password manager, so I open that.
- Password manager requires password.
- and 2FA.
- Acquire password and scramble back to the app that required password for national log on.
- Complete login so I can show that I am 33 years old, which is over the required age of 18.
In reality, the bouncer just gave up on me at around step 5 and let me in.
That sounds like a 60 second thing at most. None of it is worse than having to drive back home for your wallet.
In Norway, it has been a long tradition to do as many drinks as possible at home before heading to the bars, due to steep prices in bars. So I was pretty “beautiful” at that point, which does not help with running passwords and 2FAs
So driving back home would have been even more difficult as well (or illegal).
There are just things that should be physical things.
IDs and fucking buttons in cars please. Holy fuck please can we not do the IPAD thing in cars. Please God.
And on cooking stuff!
Long click to select stove element
Phew now it’s on full power…
It is an physic thing, OP just forgot it at home.
Yesterday, I was on the train and the lady checking the tickets at first walked past me without checking mine. After more people had gotten on, she made her route back down the train, when she asked me, if she had checked mine – hmm, she must’ve checked mine – so, she was already about to walk on and out of reflex, I said that she had actually skipped me before.
Felt a bit silly to then get out my ticket and show it to her, since I clearly wouldn’t have told her to ckeck me, if I didn’t have a valid ticket. Kind of same energy as with your bouncer, like you wouldn’t have all this stuff on your phone and spend the time trying to get into it, if it won’t lead to anything.
Either he was being a dick (fairly likely all bounces are) or you have a really good moisturizing regimen because there’s no way that a 33-year-old would look like they’re under 18.
I definitely do not look like an 18-year old. But I was entering with a group consisting of a variety of looks, so it was just a thing to check everyone.
Sure, at step 17 you are certain it’s showing ngwt14 but it fails then takes you to an almost twenty year old “identify the motorcycles” with 8 pictures of a partial wheel… or is it a bicycle? And do they mean plural as in for the whole thing or in each image?
The latest one is where they show you a picture of it deformed owl and ask you to find all other deformed owls. It’s great because humans are really good identifying pictures of distorted animals, it’s definitely something we evolve to do.
Cookie dismisser extension, bitwarden for passwords and 2FA codes, uBlock origin for annoying popups that can’t be removed with DNS blocker directly.
There are ways to reduce the pain somewhat, but they shouldn’t be necessary in first place.
(Well, hoomans and passwords are an issue that can’t be solved easily, but the push for passkeys has been a nice nudge in a more secure and more usable alternative.)
What browser are you using? Chrome pushed it’s new extension requirements and killed ublock. Firefox just dropped a bomb about selling personal info I think.
Firefox, naturally. The personal info stuff is still enforcing and being clarified. Will switch to Librefox or Waterfox if stuff gets bad.
Consent-o-matic is a life-saver
I like to tell people that using uBlock origin means the computer doesn’t have to render images and text in adds, so it is actually more environmentally friendly to have it installed than running the browser raw.
It’s a thin argument, but I’m happy to see that some people have jumped on because of it.
You don’t need an extra extension for the cookie notices. Just use uBlock Original for that:
Under Filter lists enable “Cookie notices”Does it just disable them or does it click on decline first?
what the fuck do you mean hoomans
It means you’re an uncultured swine it’s never seen an episode of Star Trek.
Caught my eye too and it feels eerily reminiscent of the alt-right “coomer” and “consoom” kind of vocabulary, although I stress the word “feel”
It might be a reference to the Ferengi, from Star Trek. They say “human” in a weird way to demonstrate their mild contempt.
Missed the step towards the end were you have to switch browser and restart the whole process because “Firefox not supported” or you’ve an extension that’s a bit overzealous on blocking the checkout popup window.
Or the page which doesn’t allow an ad blocker
Blocked an ad that fucked up the css so dramatically that the checkout button is now permanently stuck at -10% of viewport.
I tried to order chicken teriyaki so it would be ready for my wife to pick up en route home. Website requires a login. Make it. It doesn’t log in after creating the login, so log in again. Password wrong. Reset password. Finally get in. Get to last step and there’s no button to send the order. Fortunately, I’d wasted so much time that my wife was already there standing in line.
I assume it’s just formatted for mobile, but when I’m sitting at my computer, I’m going to use it, it’s always faster. Except when it doesn’t work.
Call next time?
Blasphemy and heresy.
The times I go in there they’re like “Use the website!” I feel betrayed.
And I wasn’t looking for solutions, just griping.
Ah yes I had to learn this from my wife don’t give a solution just nod along. I gotchya
Ha, I’ve “learned” the same thing from my wife. Definitely still learning, though.
But… I have to talk to a human?
😱
I wasn’t that hungry anyway.
wow that seems relatively simple given a purchase was made. usually it’s at least 4 more pages and verifications and codes and promos
26: unsubscribe from the email promos that the site automatically signed you up to even though you didn’t check the Subscribe to newsletter box, which requires you to log into the site and find and uncheck all the boxes in the “contact settings”.
Unsubscribe? You mean report spam
Report spam? You mean deactivate single-use email.
Unsubscribe is for real suckers only. When someone clicks that I always imagine some goon elbowing the guy next to him and saying something like, “look Keith we got another” unsubscriber" over here! With a big goofy grin on his face.
If the email is from a legitimate business, they must have an unsubscribe button and it has to work. They get a little time before they are required to process the request, 10 days in the US, but I’ve usually seen it take effect immediately.
Don’t click the unsubscribe button in an actual spam email.
If you didn’t ASK to receive emails from them, it’s spam and it should be reported as such.
Fuck unsubscribing from things I didn’t subscribe to.
Not sure what you mean about legitimate businesses. I don’t really trust any of them anymore. Those unsubscribe pages are still full of traps and they often don’t keep you off new mailings that they can say you didn’t explicitly unsubscribe from because this is a new newsletter that they thought you might be interested in. If I didn’t opt-in, it’s spam, and I’d like to think that maybe me labeling it as such might contribute to filters picking it up for someone else too.
26a: Note that they will simply add more categories over time and helpfully subscribe you to each of the new ones whether you ever visit the site again or not.
How people can deal with internet without adblockers like uBlock is just baffling. Not only ads, but also all the cookie banners and phone app popups and other crap. uBlock will filter all this shit out so you just use the website without junk and annoyances.
I’ve used the original Windscribe back when it was still a regular x86 app that acted like a local proxy and would filter out ads and banners. That was early 2000s iirc. Even back then I couldn’t stand all this crap. Today I can’t imagine browsing without uBlock or at minimum with DNS filtering which can’t apply cosmetic filters or more advanced rules.
AdNauseam. It clicks all the adverts. Yes, this is actively malicious behaviour. No, I don’t care.
Malicious against advertisers, beneficial to the site you’re visiting.
That’s a win-win in the desolate place we call the internet today.
Just want to post this here for anyone not aware… uBlock “medium” mode. Kind of an unadvertised feature that has to be enabled in a strangely obscure way (I think they want to make sure you’re not a complete idiot).
Still, pretty easy to set up, and much more protection than the default (but also not nearly as frustrating as “hard” mode or whatever they call it). Basically, most sites you visit are going to be broken the first time you go, but you enable elements you need for the site to load, then save those settings for that domain. Takes about 30 seconds or so once you know what you’re doing and you only need to do it once per domain. Basically, I keep 1st and 3rd-party scripts off completely most of the time. It’s relatively rare that I absolutely need to enable 1st party scripts on a page for it to load.
It’s kind of like uBlock + noscript learning mode. The element zapper is clutch as well, but that’s not unique to medium mode or anything.
DNS level ad blocks have been a huge game changer for me. When I play games at home, no ads. Then when I go out and play those games, I forget that they have ads.
For me setting up Android phone without it. Installed some app and got bombarded by all the ads and shit. Something I just don’t even know on mine.
Windscribe was important because every bit of bandwidth saved mattered. Less so with 2.5gb fiber connections to home.
I actually didn’t care so much about bandwidth back then even though 56K modem was ass. It was the ad banners that drew me nuts. Especially since that was the era of flashing and blinking GIF and Adobe Flash banners. I got 1Mbit ADSL a bit later and that’s when it was even less important since bandwidth was unlimited. Banners were still there tho and were just as annoying.
