Art Delano @ardgedee@octodon.social
There are billions of people around the world who don't realize that at this very moment you're reading this profile.
@selfnoise Walmart is currently using "Just Can't Get Enough" by Depeche Mode in another commercial.
@elsilnora It was not time wasted. I appreciated the points you made, and I've been thinking on them.
Libertarians ca. 2009: "Fiat currency is inherently valueless because it is merely a token of information with implied desirability, dissociated from materials with actual value such as gold."
Libertarians ca. now: "BITCOIN!!!!!"
@joshmillard But if you're lucky, maybe Fullon Otics will make an appearance in Pynchon's next novel.
I've never heard anybody say, "I'm so glad I finally joined Facebook! Why had I put this off for so long?"
@sonicbooming You're not old until you're too old to care.
Choose one:
▢ A good Let's Play video should make the game so interesting that I can't help but want to play it too.
▢ A good Let's Play video should be so entertaining that it satiates any interest I have in playing the game myself.
Pop Team Epic is this year's hottest toxic brain rinse.
@CobaltVelvet I'm old enough to remember John Ashcroft, 640px wide displays, and the web-safe color palette.
@CobaltVelvet Remember when this happened?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1788845.stm
It's 2018 but Kensington and Wacom still require full system reboots when you install their software.
Nothing like fumbling the entry of your credit card number and being on the wrong side of the cutoff time for an online flash sale. NTP is a harsh mistress.
@a_breakin_glass To be honest, I haven't considered tracking that, I've only allowed myself to be annoyed by scroll event intercepts as I find them.
It's a good question, though, and maybe I'll start logging sites I find that do it.
Broadly speaking, any site that captures right-scroll and left-scroll without bubbling it to the browser ranks higher on the shitlist because they also tend to interfere with right-swipe and left-swipe navigation events in MacOS and tablets.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/09/ad-firms-hit-hard-by-safari-tracking-prevention/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- Internet advertising groups complain that Safari's cross-site tracking blockers "could have a 22 percent net negative impact on its 2018 revenue projections."
- Safari has held a steady 13-15% usage share for a couple years now.
This implies either that Apple users represent a disproportionately distinct marketing demographic or that certain marketing associations are blowing smoke.
If y'all are a webdev who think that intercepting scroll events and then reconstructing them from scratch within Javascript is a good idea, cut that shit out.
It's awful. It's bad UI. You cannot make it good UI. Just stop. Delete that shit. Please. I'm begging you.
Off to get another pair of eyeglasses.
In a sense I'm buying purpose-built sets of eyes: a set for things near to me, a set for things far from me, and now a set for things far from me in very bright light. I will probably eventually have to get another couple specialty pairs as well, for example for very close-up work.
More literally, I'm buying sets of lenses. Somewhat like fixed-length camera lenses with a very clever yet awkward hack for providing focus adjustments without moving parts.
@cypnk Exposing incognito/private mode is not an intended behavior. The state can be inferred because the private tab has to suppress services like Local Storage to provide your privacy. A spoofed form of Local Storage would be worse, causing problems for sites that are using Local Storage for non-intrusive purposes.
Sites are exploiting something working as designed. It will be nice to ensure your desire for privacy also be kept private, but that will be a pretty hard problem.
@cypnk Private Browsing is not broken. The website is making a best-guess about user behavior, and there are various ways to do that. Here's a hack-and-slash approach based on expected vs. actual state in a browser tab during pageload, combined with sniffing proprietary browser attributes:
https://gist.github.com/cou929/7973956
I'd bet that even if these eventually fail, there will be more complex methods involving fingerprinting the browsers of visitors and maintaining a record server-side.
@photopuck fwiw the scholarly paper on the attack vectors is surprisingly readable; the first section is, references aside, a better introduction to the problem for laypeople than most of the popular media's attempts to explain it.
