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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by LordDragonfang on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:41AM (#13442288)
Do these people ever consider that they might have their causation backwards?
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by webartisan on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:30PM (#13445817)
Of course, and this does get pointed out to them.

But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup.

Except, you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance"

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