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I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.

At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility

Downdetector wants to issue a cloudlfare challenge, but cannot because of the current cloudflare outage. Instead of letting me through or supplying a useful error message, this is what it says. As if I, and my ad blocker, are to blame.


Screenshot reads:

downdetector.com
Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #DownDetector #cloudflare #CloudflareOutage #EverythingIsBroken

I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting "AI" buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev

"This page has expired. Please click refresh."

Oh? It smelled fine to me.

#web #internet #DarkPatterns #surveillance

At some point Google Drive started preventing the context menu from appearing when you right-click something. I installed a browser extension that re-enabled this function. The modern web is quite tiresome.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #GoogleDrive

Slack is giving me a very stern, very red warning that my web browser will not be supported after November.

#slack #DarkPatterns #tech #dev #web

Mozilla's new CEO is all-in on AI regardless of what Firefox users want: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050826/

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #DarkPatterns #AISlop #firefox #mozilla #NoAI

Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web

A web site just blocked me because I solved one of those sliding jigsaw puzzle captchas too quickly.

#tech #dev #web #captcha #cybersecurity #infosec #SecurityTheater #DarkPatterns