Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by yAnonymous on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:49AM
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>Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen
I've been thinking of creating a public uBlock filter list for websites with newsletter overlays/popups...
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by lunchables on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:32AM
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Please do this. Anyone remember pop-up ads? Notice how every web browser has an integrated pop-up blocker? They were a thing of the past. So now, apparently advertisers think we somehow actually wanted pop-up ads all along and implemented them with CSS overlays.
We seriously need to band together and stop this shit. It is absolutely infuriating. Who in the world wants to visit a website and then be stopped with a huge ad to join your stupid fucking mailing list? And I'm sure they point to their 2% conversion rate as proof that it works. What they don't know is the other 98% of people cannot fucking STAND it.
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:29PM
(#12349040)
I'd made a CSS style that defeated many of these. Problem being that it also defeats some standard Website features, so needs an overrides list.
I was told it voided my Internet warranty....
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by cyborgx7 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:37AM
(#12342448)
You should do that. I'd probably use it.
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by kaila on Monday August 22, 2016 @11:56PM
(#12341283)
I assumed poop up was intentional and thought it was pretty clever. Glad you left it as-is!
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by Jaruzel on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:20AM
(#12342170)
Ditto!
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by brainfire on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:57PM
(#12346991)
I always respond to the pop-up newsletter signup solicitations with "abuse@(sitedomain.tld)".
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by majewsky on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:04AM
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And you don't use an adblocker yet?
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:33PM
(#12349058)
Ad-blockers don't catch everything.
They're not available for all browsers. Quite notably, Chrome on Android, and any application that incorporates the Chrome core for its web presentation.
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by laurent123456 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:56AM
(#12342516)
It feels like ad-blockers are less and less effective at blocking ads these days, in particular I don't think any of them block these annoying JS popups.
Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
by executesorder66 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @08:02AM
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uBlock Origin has never failed me. Even for annoying "non-ad" crap like that.
Also the retargeted ads that follow me everywhere now. MOST of them are for companies where I have ALREADY bought something, so they are wasting their ad spend on chasing an existing customer, not a likely prospect.
This has made me resolve to try and make the web a less shitty place, one web site at a time - and I have ensured that my web projects absolutely DO NOT have any popups or cross site tracking in there (aside from normal analytics that is only used in house).
[I accidentally mis-typed 'pop up' above but LOVE the Freudian slip so will leave it as-is].