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They are just like idiots. You can never make anything idiot-proof because idiots are so ingenious!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I guess rugrats can chew through anything.
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The trend for sites to pop up nag screens as soon as your mouse leaves the viewable area, or when you scroll, or after 5 seconds, or when you blink, or whatever, seems to have reached a level I'd classify as "Fully Delusional".
Has anyone (and you can remain nameless, except we'd see your username, but we won't judge) ever, ever been on a page, gone to leave said page, had the pop-up appear and thought "You know - I do think I'll type in my email address as I leave the site and look elsewhere. This will only take a moment and will be well worth my time".
I understand the idea behind them (at least, the initial vision of these things) but I'm trying to work out the value proposition for actually putting in your details on a site that hasn't demonstrated any value (you've been there a whole 5 seconds!)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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... and answer came there none.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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using the Brave browser along with a very hard core firewall along with linux mint. I barely ever get a popup.
I actually went into a site I normally go to for information with Chrome on Winders the other day. I was soo upset I almost shot the computer.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I have seen some that want your phone number, as well as your email, so they can send you "helpful" text alerts.
sure, let me give you my home address and back account info while I am it. 
every marketing company in the world will be texting my phone.
No thank you.
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Slacker007 wrote: sure, let me give you my home address and back account info while I am it.
What, like the curvature of your spine and how many vertebrae you have? pfft... the cheek of it! 
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Slacker007 wrote:
every marketing company in the world will be texting my phone.
I'm being told that email is out, and any business's preferred contact method is now supposed to be by text. I'm not even kidding.
Joke's on them, I don't even carry a device that can receive texts. So if that's where they're all migrating, I say, let them, and good riddance.
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People who frequently hang around programming forums, and people with a low enough IQ to click on such nonsense, are mutually exclusive.
If a site uses this tactic, it tells me that they don't know how to "sell" what they are offering. Thus, they don't know what they are doing. In which case, I'm out.
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A lot of them nag about your ad blocker. And some of them aren't even happy when that gets turned off. They don't like that you block trackers either.
On the "positive" side, some sites that sell investment advice think you want to sit through a half-hour video of some rude shill who drones on and on before coming to the point. If you try to leave that site, one of these pop-ups lets you choose to read a transcript instead, which is much better. If you're interested, this cuts the time in at least half. And if you're not that interested, you can scroll down and get to the B effing L in no time at all.
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Greg Utas wrote: some sites that sell investment advice think you want to sit through a half-hour video of some rude shill who drones on and on before coming to the point.
There is probably some regulatory requirement* that they tell you that past performance is no indication of future performance, yada, yada, yada.
* Or they are trying to head off being regulated
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If more than 1 popup I usually just leave the page, cursing as I go.
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My feeling is that someone misunderstood the idea that "you only have [N] seconds to make a first impression".
IMO, the very idea of a "nag screen" when you are about to leave a site is flawed. If the site is interesting enough to me, I will look for a link to a registration page. If it is not, no amount of "nagware" will motivate me to do so.
Nagging me before I've even had a chance to get an impression of the site is no way to give me a good impression.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Worked for me!
Nigerian prince depositing $2 million in my bank account as we speak.
Silly you.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I liken it to aggressive pan-handling.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Chris Maunder wrote: You know - I do think I'll type in my email address as I leave the site and look elsewhere.
Nope.
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The Firefox add-on "Bypass Paywalls" has been doing a wonderful job for me for national journals like WashPost and NYTimes, but it doesn't work with my local journal - and this local journal seems to now be putting every article under a paywall.  And the owner is a guy that I had voted for Governor years ago when he had run! 
Before I got this add-on, I used the technique with WashPost of "refresh & stop loading", which with careful timing would work. Another technique is to download the page, and then just read through the HTML file, LOL, although obviously that can be a PITA.
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swampwiz wrote: then just read through the HTML file
And here I was thinking I was the only one who did that.
I also fire up Dev tools and just delete the blocking overlay.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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hosts file.
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm trying to work out the value proposition for actually putting in your details on a site that hasn't demonstrated any value (you've been there a whole 5 seconds!)
I'm working out the freedom to bomb that idea 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I usually put in someone else's email.
Got any good spam recently, Chris 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ah, that explains what happened 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, of course!
These websites obviously have some good stuff to offer me and they make it easy for me to subscribe to the even better stuff for subscribers only.
I never doubt their intentions so I can safely leave them my name and email address as I can be certain they won't abuse or sell it.
Even better when they ask for my credit card information, as the stuff must be really good if I have to pay for it!
Having subscribed, I sleep a little easier knowing I'll never miss out on new content from somerandomblog.com!
All in all, I can say the internet is a great place full of great people and companies who have my best interest at heart!
Not even Tim Berners-Lee could've dreamed his invention would bring out the best in all these people.
Too bad governments are corrupt and only think about themselves and harass heroes like Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Jess Bezos, who do their best to bring us even more great content, driven by a purely altruistic motive!
I say, more power to the internet!
Make ad-blockers illegal!
Away with lawmakers and their "privacy laws"!
More power to Facebook, Amazon and Google!
Wake up sheeple, it's time we stood up and fight for a single online identity, accessible to all!
Also, you can either agree with me or be wrong and Epstein didn't kill himself[^] 
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I bet you are bleeding from having bitten your tongue so hard . .
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Has anyone (and you can remain nameless, except we'd see your username, but we won't judge) ever, ever been on a page, gone to leave said page, had the pop-up appear and thought "You know - I do think I'll type in my email address as I leave the site and look elsewhere. This will only take a moment and will be well worth my time".
My wife did that  and now gets loads of mails that I keep trying to unsubscribe her from but it's a losing battle.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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