every time i get a popup halfway down an interesting article with JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER!!! SIGN UP HERE!!!! i imagine myself getting to slug the idiot who came up with it so hard their head flies off like a rock-em-sock-em robot
"why is everyone's attention shit? why can nobody read an entire article without leaving"
REAL FUCKIN MYSTERY THERE! YOU GOT A REAL HOUDINI ON YOUR HANDS!!
i dismissed the modal popover that stopped the page from scrolling and now there's a booger taking up the bottom third of the screen imploring me to subscribe to the newsletter that i just refused to sign up for.
i wish i could send bombs through email
i honest to god wonder why people do this. like, think about it:
you are showing that you care so little for your readers -- that you care so little about YOUR OWN FUCKING WRITING -- that you are willing to interrupt it, constantly, with begs to engage.
25% through this article i have been pestered to sign up for this newsletter at least 4 times (there are even more scrolling down, including at the end). "no spam" is clearly a lie.
fuck this kind of user-hostile design. because that's what it is: user-hostile.
