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    After 10 seconds of reading an overlay appears that asks you to subscribe to their newsletter.

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      Those are so infuriating. Especially when it’s for some random website that you’ll likely never have a reason to visit ever again. Does anyone actually subscribe? I highly doubt it, though who knows what old people do (I used to do end-user tech support and I’ve seen some shit). I’ve come across a couple of stores offer a small discount if you subscribe, which is at least a legit reason to do so, but this discount is so small that I even then I don’t bother.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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        Surprisingly, yes. I have no idea why people put their email addresses in those things, but they do. I put a tiny email capture on one of my websites once as an experiment. I didn’t even offer anything, It just said “Keep in touch”, and thousands of people signed into an double opt-in mailing list in the 3 weeks I had it up. Fucking weirdos.

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      Bonus points if you had to enable JS beforehand because they load the content in via scripts afterwards.

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        • 30 mb of JS for 1 kb of text.
        • Can’t zoom or scroll freely without JS interfering.
        • Double-click on a word and it calls another script for ‘assistance’ instead of selecting the word.
        • Right-click is disabled or bring their own ‘menu’ that does nothing.
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          Right-click is disabled or bring their own ‘menu’ that does nothing.

          Me trying to copy a link in discord web:

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      And first thing when you open the page your browser prompts you to enable notifications for the site so they can spam ads that way too

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        I always wondered does anybody (with sane enough understanding of tech) accept notifications? It’s the one thing I hate the most, it triggers anxiety and takes my attention away from what I have to do.