Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on Google.fr

Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by eropple on Saturday February 08, 2014 @08:11PM (#7203731)

I know PCMag is pretty hard up for...everything, these days, but a modal "sign up for our newsletter" box that doesn't have a close button is the worst thing I've seen in a while.

(You can get out by hitting Escape, but that doesn't make it okay.)

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by dangrossman on Saturday February 08, 2014 @08:20PM (#7203760)

Perhaps you have an extension that alters it somehow? There's a working close button at the top right.

http://i.imgur.com/ufH3khH.png

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by click170 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @08:40PM (#7203810)

Just use NoScript, no more newsletter shenanigans.

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by mindslight on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:15PM (#7204351)

I usually just do a whois on the domain and put the admin contact email in. If that's already signed up, then retry using their nameservers' domain.

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by halter73 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @08:21PM (#7203763)

The modal box does have a close button.

Perhaps your ad blocker is blocking the close button.

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by eropple on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:34PM (#7204390)

So it is. Which is one of the uglier fuck-you behaviors a company can pull.

(I make any web work I do work with or without an adblocker, because I don't own their browser.)

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by dangrossman on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:56AM (#7204560)

The DOM chain to that button is `#colorbox #cboxContent #cboxClose`. What part of that looks designed to intentionally trigger an ad blocker so you can't close it? They didn't "pull" anything. It's blocked because the CDN they host their static images on has the word "ad" in the domain (static.adziff.com -- named after their company, Ziff Davis); that's called a false positive.

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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by dylz on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:32AM (#7204516)

It's taller than my fucking screen!

http://i.imgur.com/UrS04Xw.png

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