Sort of aside but it’s wild to me that people talk of ab testing all kinds of minor things and yet so many shops immediately cover up the item I’m viewing with a huge banner/full page annoyance about cookies.

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willvarfar 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The other day I accidentally double-clicked on the the dismiss of a popup and the second click went through to the page underneath and I added an item to cart.

Don't know if it was intentionally positioned like that but I was ready to imagine it was.

	▲	IanCal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not a fan of conspiracy things but I'd definitely agree that would A/B test better.

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zamadatix 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, it's very possible the same places found the tracking data is worth the annoyance.

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IanCal 3 days ago | parent [-]

You're right and I'm torn on whether it's good or bad. In a way that would be at least sensible, but awful for me. The other option is they're making lazy bad choices.

I do wonder what would have happened if the laws were in place first. Would people have been so willing to add all this stuff if it meant putting a big thing over the entire shop?

My other consideration is whether if the owners had to use their site like new customers every time if they'd get pissed off about the stuff covering their actual shops.

	▲	zamadatix 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Given people A/B test all kinds of minor things I'm sure someone would have hit on it and then it would spread. That's basically the rocket fuel that drives people really into A/B testing everything rather than just hunches "I could find something which increases metrics you wouldn't otherwise think to try". In either case, I think the net result is bad news for users, good news for people selling things. And of course the sprinkle of "people just making mistakes/guesses" too, but there's no universe that's not going to be found.

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tempodox 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Petty revenge, torturing their users with malicious compliance.

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