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?

dplattsf@sfba.social

@joby as corollary.. anyone coding a modal dialog with an option "Maybe later" can go to hell....

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.

dplattsf@sfba.social

@joby The sad thing is that I actually feel some goodwill towards software developers (building software myself) And believe that truly beautiful software thrives on constant user feedback and that if you make it easy for all your users to help you, you can build something beautiful. Nobody is interested in that business model anymore. Sadly the most broken bits of software also not coincidentally have the worst feedback systems. I once tried to report a bug for something in the Microsoft store and it went to the feedback hub and then it broke the feedback hub and then I moved on.

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

ckl@ioc.exchange

@joby I think ypu are not sure about what you want, perhaps we just do it anyway?

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.

directhex@tech.lgbt

@joby @DavidNielsen 15% off your first order, just insert your email address into this modal dialog!!

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

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Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers: