Dark Patterns, the Ratchet

Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by shostack on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:55PM (#16693109)

Unfortunately sometimes you can't please everyone. For example, Firefox constantly nags me to update to Quantum. I tried it, realized some of my mission critical plugins (Session Manager) don't work there, so I've been holding out intentionally for alternatives.

Yet Firefox CONSTANTLY nags me to upgrade, and there's not even a "don't bug me for X amount of time" option.

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:32PM (#16694434)

It stuns me that any extension would be so critical as to keep one away from Quantum! (But then, I suppose I also don't understand why one would stay back with Windows 7 when 10 is out there either.)

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:08AM (#16695201)

For some of us, "Firefox with X extension" was functionally a different browser that happened to resemble Firefox. Tree Style Tabs, Tab Groups, etc. completely changed how one used the browser.

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by shostack on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:55AM (#16695683)

That's a great way of putting it. And in some cases, the combination of that functionality provided by those extensions made that frankenstein "version" of a browser more valuable than the benefits of Quantum.

I'd also add All-in-One-Gestures, Classic Theme Restorer to your list ;)

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