That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.
Submitted 8 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I really hate how hostile the web has gotten in the past 10 years.
blave@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
because every website got bought out by a major corporation which publicly executes its employees, every hour, on the hour, if their profit line stops going up
simple@piefed.social 6 hours ago
this is why ublock origin is a must have when browsing the internet these days
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I don’t have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Here’s an archived version without the hijacking:
mhague@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 4 hours ago
I don't know, I think a rag calling itself Windows Central might have a bias towards Microsoft...
Even the tone of the article sounds like their arms are tired from carrying their water.
One thing after another, Microsoft is forced to respond time and time again to ongoing rumors that it's leaving the hardware space.
A new Xbox rumor started this weekend that's now blown out of proportion, as usual.
Can you bitch any harder?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The last Target I was at only had Xbox games in their clearance section and they were last years sporto titles, nothing current.
Small selection of Playstation and Switch games.
vpol@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Too late.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Doubt
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Misinformation is fucking everywhere these days. And when you try to point out the truth, people get angry if it doesn’t match up with their feelings.