Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

swaldman@mendeddrum.org

@kakurady @joby The irony that every user-hostile thing that the Microsoft person in that article complained about 20 years ago is now something that Microsoft do themselves.

baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

@joby @Nicovel0 And having answered NO to all of that, don't bloody ask it again when I navigate to the next page.

oskard@mastodon.nu

@joby but do you want to ACCEPT ALL cookies or do you prefer to go into a menu and unselect 300 toggles?

joby@hachyderm.io

@oskard Or option Use a browser plugin that hides the prompt, but now a bunch of stuff doesn't work because we all hold the functionally-necessary cookies hostage behind that stupid prompt.

pa28@social.vivaldi.net

@joby @oskard I take this to mean "we really don't want your views so Fck all the way off" and oblige.

bolderbekah@mastodon.social

@joby not the programmers, sales and growth hackers forcing it on the rest of marketing and development 🫠

mensrea@freeradical.zone

@joby <cloudflare slides into the chat> hi! are you even human

neverbeaten@mas.to

@joby
I’d pay $5 to be able to mega-boost this post.

neverbeaten@mas.to

@dplattsf @joby
I’d be okay with a “remind me later” ONLY IF always paired with a “dismiss forever” option.

joby@hachyderm.io

@bolderbekah You're not wrong, but it ultimately takes two to tango. I feel like a lot of programmers just utterly divorce themselves from the consequences of their work. Honestly a lot of people in general do that, because unethical jobs often pay well.

Like I could probably double or triple my salary by getting a job at our local national labs or some defense contractor, but ... I like how working on my silly little university websites means the code I write will never kill anybody. That's like one of my number one job perks.

joby@hachyderm.io

@neverbeaten @dplattsf Right? I'd accept three options, as long as one of them is "leave me alone forever"

neverbeaten@mas.to

@joby
See also: “sign in with…”

I’ll sign in with my credentials unique to your site, not Google or Apple.

killyourfm@layer8.space

@joby You need this, it will help: https://justthebrowser.com

alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com

@neverbeaten @joby or for me, I will probably keep coming to your site and then immediately leaving with a great feeling of resentment until I remember to tell Kagi to never show me your stupid fucking site in search results again.

joby@hachyderm.io

@neverbeaten Yeah. Granted I'm a weird nerd, but I actually do have every single login I use behind unique email addresses. I bought a lifetime subscription to Proton Pass a long time ago, and it integrates an email alias feature from SimpleLogin. So when I'm making a new account it just pops up a little alias generator right there. Very convenient.

SimpleLogin even lets you use your own domain name, so I'm not completely hosed if they go under or enshittify someday.

sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca

@joby Don't blame the programmers. I'm sure it's the sales team / executive suite / etc. who insist they do these things.
My own pet peave when I need to use Windows (which I avoid when possible) is that any time Windows brings up something in the browser, it will be in Edge ignoring my stated preference to use Firefox.
There are extensions (for #Firefox at least) that can block those annoying "Log in with Google" popups eg Block Origin.

sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca

@chrisoliver That's another major annoyance. "No, never" is not on the list of alternatives.

neverbeaten@mas.to

@joby
I love proton pass.

joby@hachyderm.io

@alisynthesis @neverbeaten I've also gotten a lot of mileage out of just using uBlock to turn off all javascript except sites I've explicitly allowed it for. That takes care of a huge swath of these kinds of annoyances.

pepperthevixen@meow.social

@joby louder for the product managers lurking in the slack channel

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Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers: