Re:Inside a viral website
by dayvid on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:15PM
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Makes me think of Wikipedia who have probably A/B tested donation requests to death and have them take up half the page.
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Wikipedia is in my opinion unluckily a complex example because the donations are actually for Wikimedia.
In my case I donated only once to them and I understood only later that (apparently?) most of the $ isn't being used for Wikipedia, therefore as I'm not interested in their other projects I never donated anything anymore to them - they can make that banner as big&flashy as they want but the fact remains that I don't want my $ used for non-Wikipedia-related activities.
Not to mention WP:CANCER [0], though it's less of an exponential curve today than 5 years ago.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...