Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Date: 23 Apr 2014 08:40:04 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DMAC03s51+DsTYyofMvS5Q5xXz+dQpAVUo+9S4xLTo+mlwgNfh Cancel-Lock: sha1:yKXZL0SrcG7SQoOqNdr+/OrPrrg= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2444 On 2014-04-22, Oregonian Haruspex wrote: > On 2014-04-22 18:13:47 +0000, RS Wood said: > >> http://bokardo.com/archives/paying-to-get-rid-of-pagination-on-slate/ >> >> Interesting article about wrecking the user experience in order to >> sell ads. Save me Usenet, you're my only hope! > > It has been some years since I looked at weather.com, and I checked it > out after looking at the article. What a joke! FWIW, it also breaches the EU requirements on both cookies and access for the disabled - although both of these breaches are commonplace, verging on universal. -- Today is Pungenday, the 40th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”