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If there was a dark pattern competition... (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago

I love being able to build my own site that works like a motherfucking website. This example is even simpler, but in general, unless I am actively adding products to a cart, your website shouldn’t do jack but display media. Tired of all this modern web shit that attacks you every time you open a page.

Looking at you, every news site in existence

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 20 points 5 days ago

What’s so refreshing about motherfucking website is that I feel no need to activate ”reader mode” just to make the site bearable. Basic HTML is perfect as it is.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

I built my own blog that way. All static generated, no JavaScript, no cookies, just enough CSS to get a nice dark mode look. Loads in 0.3 seconds on a modern connection, or around 10 seconds if you're on a shitty 2G connection. 370KB load, and about 270KB of that is a picture on a post that could be slimmed down if it used something more modern than jpeg compression.

[-] oxysis 10 points 5 days ago

This is my new favorite website, thank you

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

IMO, the original is the best one. I think all variations are just over designed. HTML default settings aren’t that bad.

[-] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Na, dark mode rules, the best o e was thebestmotherfuckingwebsite, it even had colors

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh my beloved motherfucking website author, I do in fact remember when websites were good, it was about 15 or 20 years ago.. Sob (maybe more depending on who you ask)

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 30 points 5 days ago

In America cookies are called cookies but all other biscuits are also called cookies. In Australia lollipops are called lollies but all other kinds of sweets are also called lollies. I don’t really know where I’m going with this.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

I don't either, but in America biscuits are savory or near flavorless, not sweet like cookies.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 5 days ago

They need to get better biscuits then!

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

Yes, ours are all limp.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Tell me what you’re gonna do now.

[-] USSMojave@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

What British people call biscuits are called cookies in America. American biscuits are more like what British people call scones

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

But a cookie is still a cookie - e.g. the one in the meme. That bit is universal.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

Sweet is not inherently better than savory. Some of us think it's worse.

[-] JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

English as a language was seen as too easy. So we decided to mix it up.

Why would you ever be the global language of trade and commerce and the go between for multiple nations, whose entire structure is a hodgepodge of latin, Germanic, and mistranslated root structures and made up rules, if you didn't decide to mix it up from time to time and region to region?

Embrace the bastard language standard. This is the way.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

... Are you aware that 'loli', pronounced the same as 'lollie'... is art (usually drawn) that depicts sexualized or nude children, and ... fans of, or viewers of loli... are called lolis?

I am reasonably confident this is widespread internet terminology across the entire English speaking internet at this point, but you being Australian and... possibly not being aware of this... makes me question that assumption somewhat.

That or perhaps you're older than me?

... Uh, anyway, in America we have 'fries' or 'french fries', but seemingly every other English speaking country calls them 'chips'.

Which is confusing to the hungry, overweight, American brain, because what we call chips, ya'll tend to call 'crisps'.

But at the same time, we can't even agree on whether or not a sugary, carbonated beverage is called soda, pop, or just coke, used to refer to all soft drinks, not just coca cola.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

in America we have […] 'french fries'

And they aren't even french, they're belgian.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Yep.

The contentious but somewhat agreed upon story of how this happened is roughly: US troops discover 'fries' in restaurants in Belgium, after WW1, but in an area of Belgium with mostly French speakers.

Americans appreciate alliteration, and don't care so much for actual accuracy, so... 'French Fries'.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

  1. This is bizarrely off-topic.

  2. That is not how "loli" is pronounced--it's short for "Lolita", with a long "O" sound.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

1: How is talking about weird quirks of English vocabulary that differ regionally and among different groups of people... off topic?

2: Many people online pronounce 'loli' with all kinds of different pronounciations of the 'o'... at least in part because there is much regional variation in the US as to how all vowels are pronounced in just all words.

Some pronounce it with the same sound as 'low', the long o. Other pronounce it as 'lawl', others pronounce it as 'lahl', the way uh... Data's sort of android adopted daughter's name is pronounced in TNG.

I have heard Brits, Aussies and Kiwis pronounce 'loli' with all kinds of vowel sound variations as well.

Pronouncing it the same as in 'lolipop' is a very common pronounciation, amongst many different regional English dialects.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

uBlock origin > config > enable all annoyances list

Alternatively, there's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ (works on android)

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago

When you disable saving cookies in your browser, you'll get this all the time. YouTube is the worst offender, because it takes ages to load (not because of internet).

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago

GDPR says you shouldn't get a single cookie until you click the consent button. Try this: clear all cookies for a web site that has one of these banners, refresh the page and let it finish loading, and then see how many cookies you have for it before you consent to any.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 4 days ago

*third-party

[-] childOfMagenta@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Depends on the purpose of the cookie.

[-] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 8 points 4 days ago

Meme is true, sure, but that cookie looks effin delicious

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

I don’t think you understand what a dark pattern is.

[-] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Isn't it when ui/ux uses deceptive practices to confuse the user into doing something?

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Reject all.

[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

are they called biscuits for co.uk sites?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

Cookies are not inherently bad. How do you think identity and access management (logging into websites, etc) work?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

Sure. But why does a website want to place a cookie when there is no IAM involved like news sites, blogs? For ad Tracking!

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