Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

joby@hachyderm.io

I DO NOT WANT TO TRY CHROME.

I DO NOT WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE BACK TO THE DEFAULT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE TO YOURS.

I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY LOCATION.

I DO NOT WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO ONE SINGLE NEWSLETTER EVER.

I DO NOT WANT NOTIFICATIONS.

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE.

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