Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@joby

"Would you like to subscribe to our email news letter before even reading the article you came here to read?"

I would not.

[joby@hachyderm.io]

@EndlessMason omg I somehow forgot about newsletters

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@joby
It's easy to forget about them when you've got 25 cosmetic filter lists installed across 4 different content filtering extensions

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@joby
screaming "witness me" after trying the chrome

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@joby you must be here for the notifications then! Have we got notifications for you, kid! Want them?

[happyfishmedia@cloudisland.nz]

@joby ah, so you want to download our Custom Browser Bar then?

[justinmac84@mastodon.social]

@joby this is modern life, where you have to wrestle with everything that's yours to keep it doing what you want, not what someone else wants. Add to that list I don't want to be forced to update if I don't want to. I don't want to claw through obscure webpages and advice that I barely understand to turn off the features you're forcing on me that I never asked for. It's all so tiring!

[joby@hachyderm.io]

@dplattsf oh yeah. I almost forgot. I also do not want to tell you what I think, or rate you on the app store.

[snosrapkungfu@mastodon.social]

@Happyfishmedia @joby you made the options wrong, they should be "yes", and "next month when we make it mandatory hahaha lol kthxbye"

[reinald@nrw.social]

@joby @Happyfishmedia oh, that feels very 90th

[cogdog@cosocial.ca]

@joby Also

IF YOU INSIST ON ASKING FOR MY EMAIL I FULLY EXPECT TO BE (angrily) UNSUBSCRIBING FROM YOUR SPAM LIST I DID NOT ASK TO BE ON

[zompus@phire.place]

@joby There's an opportunity to turn this into a Green Eggs and Ham-style rhyme.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@joby I turn off location on all my devices for privacy and because the public IP address my internet connection uses is geo-located to a spot over 150 kilometers from where I live.

There is no point in getting a recommendation for great pizzas from a restaurant two and a half hours drive away.

That travelling time is by car. It would take a lot longer for the moped delivery person to arrive with our order.

And with the weather as it is at this time of year the pizzas would arrive frozen.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@Happyfishmedia @joby In a former life working fixing PCs I did actually encounter a browser where the space for the web page content was a thin strip at the bottom of the screen.

This was due to multiple third-party "search bars" having been unwittingly installed by the user.

I remember having to avoid installing a search bar each time I updated Adobe flash.

I sure do miss the old days (NOT).

[chrisoliver@indieweb.social]

You don’t? OK. Well ask you again later:

https://blog.prototypr.io/not-now-a91c75ad35b6

[babble_endanger@freeradical.zone]

@joby "Use the app? Or continue with Chrome?"

Fuck you I'm not using Chrome