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[ ] No, I haven't actually read the thing I'm saying I read, but I'm checking this anyway to get the thing I want.
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Dialog box: “Please enter your postal / zip code. I’m saying it is to make your experience better, but really it’s to make someone else’s job easier so that they can track things.”
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“Hello and welcome to our new site! Please fill out this form and give us your email address so we can one day convince you to buy something. If we can ever figure out what we should sell. Chances are slim, but give it to us anyway just in case.”
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Web site search form label:
“Search this site using our internal search engine, but really you should just use Google site search:”
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“Search this site using our internal search engine, but really you should just use Google site search:”
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“We use cookies on this site to provide a personalized experience. By using our site, you agree to these cookies, which means on any other big sites you go to, you’re gonna see creepy amounts of ads for any products you looked at here.
[ Dismiss ]”
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[ Dismiss ]”
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[ Sign in ]
By which we mean “Sign in to our site, that is made up of our new platform, plus 6 legacy platforms, where there’s a good chance 3 of those old systems are just going to ask you to sign in again anyway”
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By which we mean “Sign in to our site, that is made up of our new platform, plus 6 legacy platforms, where there’s a good chance 3 of those old systems are just going to ask you to sign in again anyway”
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"You signed out of your account. Well, really, we signed you out, but are making it sound like you did it so that you're not mad at us for having to authenticate again. Really, you have yourself to blame. Not us. Nope."
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"Please provide your email address and phone number in order to get this download. We're saying the download is really good, but it will likely disappoint you.
PS. We're going to email you every day and likely call you once a week forever."
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PS. We're going to email you every day and likely call you once a week forever."
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You’re unsubscribed from our mailing list.
We are sorry to see you go, but just in case you think you need to click this button to confirm your unsubscribe, this button will trick you into resubscribing.
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We are sorry to see you go, but just in case you think you need to click this button to confirm your unsubscribe, this button will trick you into resubscribing.
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“You received this email because you are subscribed to... actually, nope.
Someone at our company found or bought your email address and added you to our email list.
You should expect irrelevant emails on at least a weekly basis. Because we are desperate.”
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Someone at our company found or bought your email address and added you to our email list.
You should expect irrelevant emails on at least a weekly basis. Because we are desperate.”
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You have unsubscribed from this email list.
But don’t worry, we’re keeping your email in our database so that we can email you again in a few years when you’ve forgotten that you unsubscribed.
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But don’t worry, we’re keeping your email in our database so that we can email you again in a few years when you’ve forgotten that you unsubscribed.
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“This website uses a cookie notice, a popup email list invitation, and 6 other nag reminders that you will need to dismiss to get the content you actually came here for. We’re sorry but a higher paid person made us do it. Signed, the designers and developers”
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"We’ve strengthened our password requirements to ensure your account remains protected.
Also, we disabled pasting your password in so that it's really really *REALLY* difficult for you to enter the password that your strong password generator created for you"
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Also, we disabled pasting your password in so that it's really really *REALLY* difficult for you to enter the password that your strong password generator created for you"
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Dialog pops up:
"You can close this if you want to and decline, but just be aware that we're borderline passive-aggressive here and going to try to guilt you into saying yes by making you feel like your life won't be complete without opting in"
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"You can close this if you want to and decline, but just be aware that we're borderline passive-aggressive here and going to try to guilt you into saying yes by making you feel like your life won't be complete without opting in"
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Cookie notice:
"Good luck trying to find a way to decline all these cookies, or finding a way to dismiss this notice without saying accept. Because we hid the X somewhere you'll never think to look. Oh, also, we made it really low contrast and hard to see"
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"Good luck trying to find a way to decline all these cookies, or finding a way to dismiss this notice without saying accept. Because we hid the X somewhere you'll never think to look. Oh, also, we made it really low contrast and hard to see"
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“This content will work better in the app. Here’s a button you can tap. It might open the app but will most likely take you to the App Store. You’ll close it and then try again and again wondering if you tap it sliiiightly differently if it’ll work this time.”
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All those cookie notices:
“We are about to track the hell out of you and maybe even sell your data and invade your privacy.
If you don’t want that, best of luck finding a way to click out of this notice that doesn’t give us permission to do that anyway.”
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“We are about to track the hell out of you and maybe even sell your data and invade your privacy.
If you don’t want that, best of luck finding a way to click out of this notice that doesn’t give us permission to do that anyway.”
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