So the other day I met the guy who makes all that crap on-line
I told him you can have my cash
But first you know I've got to ask
What made you want to live this kind of life?
He said there ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees
I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed; ain't nothing in this world for free
I know I can't slow down
I can't hold back though you know I wish I could
Oh no there ain't no rest for the wicked
Until we close the shop for good...[edit] dang, can something be done about this? Flagging for format? Maybe a little drastic, but try reading HN in elinks, you'll see that a long line breaks the whole page. How about line wrap? Desktop users would be unaffected, and it would be a better compromise for mobile.
Cage the elephant- ain't no rest for the wicked
In case anyone is wondering
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world
There are these developers who just made an awesome webapp or something. It's really great but there is a problem. Noone knows about it. But they have a solution for that problem. They buy some "promotion". It's articles in newsletters or outright spam directed at their target audience. I cannot tell you exactly who their target audience is but I can tell you who it is not. It's not you, me or most readers on hackernews. It's less tech savyy people with more decision power. Old people. Their site is made for old people. And they don't care about you and me or any other passer-by who won't pay a dime. They care about conversion rates and that is what they monitor all day long.
It's a bit like in those scam-emails. They are so obvious that anybody with half a brain will click delete. But those who do reply, oh boy, they are so ready to be milked off by that nigerian prince.
Buying recognition is nothing new in tech.
"Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it."
Read this article, "The Submarine" ~ http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Case in point, circumventing ad blockers. Audience explicitly doesn't want the ad experience, but Facebook wants to make more $. Facebook just announced a record quarter on desktop advertising fueled by successfully circumventing ad blockers.
"While Facebook appears to have had the last word for now, this, friends, is a long game. That being said, a few other ad blockers have apparently found workarounds to Facebook’s latest circumvention."
I asked him, what if the client wanted a pink unicorn gif in the corner, should we just do that as well? Without telling the client that it doesn't fit the site? He said yes...
The website probably won't cry over your bounce if it means they'll collect an email optin from someone else.
Auto play video is bad for reasons beyond a pop in modal and reasons beyond annoying video ads.
my wife has quit going to several sites altogether, and in other cases can not buy on a website, because of pop-up stuff.
So... if they're measuring for "email signups" then - w00t! - sweet! - numbers are so high! What about actual sales? Or repeat sales? Lifetime value of a customer?
Ask him to ask the client if that's the behaviour the client would find annoying if every other site also did that.