@mikemathia if the article had looked more interesting, the user might have reached "Allow this site to see your location?" or even the Final Boss "Sign up for free membership to read this article".
@mikemathia If a site wants me to register to read a full article I don't tend to bother even if it's free. The web has gotten really annoying recently.
He took it further than I would. I'll usually tweak their cookie access if given the option, but it's a cold day in Hell before I'll disable my ad-blocker.
I got the YouTube message that I was using an AdBlocker today. There were two buttons: Disable Adblocker and Subscribe to Premium. There was also the error report button "I'm not using an Adblocker."
But... most importantly, there was a little X in the corner to close it. I just closed the message and the video still played fine.
@mikemathia Useful tip: You can just close the tab, you don't need to shut down your laptop and physically walk away from it if you encounter a website you dislike. This simple trick can save you quite a lot of time!
As someone who largely browses the internet while signed into various accounts (Google & Amazon being the two I'm thinking of specifically) I hadn't realised quite how annoying & hostile things had become until I was browsing for Christmas presents in an incognito window.. Google constantly has pop ups asking if you wouldn't rather be signed in, Amazon has a captcha to check you're not a robot just to visit the site and then a cookie banner that literally takes up half the screen.
@mikemathia What I find worse are the sites that force you to accept all cookies or buy the pure subscription in order to view the content. If you do this, you still only get the teaser and the request to buy the so-called Plus subscription.
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