I would adblock the overlay, like I usually do with dumb overlays

except when they're assholes who disable the scrollbar while the overlay shows

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no, but I mean that they make the page body completely unscrollable until the overlay is dismissed the intended way

and I hate complying to the whims of some random hipsterweb coder.

I would never disable my adblocker, but at the same time I'd rather circumvent cockblocking measures than give up. because it's basically "consume our ads or fuck off", and accessing the site without undergoing the ads is a path they don't envision.


oh also

Posted by StapleButter

modern websites can spy on you and collect what you enter even if you don't submit anything.


regarding the email spam, I set up a few filters that delete spam. I wanted to set up an autoresponder to spam the senders back, but my real-life account isn't getting the canned responses feature for whatever reason, and I couldn't find how to activate it.

did I mention that Aliexpress does that shit too?

as soon as you leave the email field, you're already receiving spam from them.

yet, they don't see fit to properly internationalize their contact info form. I had to enter a bogus phone number because the dumb thing demanded a US-format phone number, nevermind that I had set the country field to France.

it's amusing to see what are the true priorities for hipsterweb coders.

also: I wonder how that kind of email-snatching would react to going back and changing the email address. does it send spam again? can you use it to send spam to multiple addresses that way?

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if a site begs you to subscribe to some crap: find the admin's email or the host abuse email or whatever and enter that

some sites will send a confirmation email before sending anything, though


also, reminds me of that awful trend with news sites: autoplaying videos hidden anywhere in the middle in the page

stemming from a) the social network trend of autoplaying videos and shoving content in the user's face, and b) that news sites want so hard to control how you read them. seriously, name one news site that doesn't suck

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I remember that amateur Hipsterscript site where the code was all clear and nice, so I was able to come up with a Greasemonkey script that dodged their cockblocking.

Worth noting that the owner of that site was an ego-filled douchebag, but after enough people complaining he'd finally give in and remove the cockblocking (and maybe the ads too -- don't remember).

However most of the sites out there are powered by giant, "minified", obfuscated Hipsterscript monsters, and working your way through that is impossible.

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