Well, this is new, Google.
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This is a first for me. Queried for something via Google just now and got this as an in-page popup:
Edit: I picked the "neither" option, because FUCKIT, and was then presented with this:
(There was one more option, "None of the above", that was below the visible options. Why not just make the damn thing expand a bit?)
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huh? probably they threw machine learning at their search results.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Why not just make the damn thing expand a bit?
Their UX guy has been turned to evil, and this was a great way to reduce useless results.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Well, this is new, Google.:
There was one more option, "None of the above", that was below the visible options.
No explicit option for "I couldn't see the results because of these damn popups"?
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@PJH Too true; there's so many of these stupid questionnaires popping up left and right these days, I just want that sort of option in all of them. "Would you recommend our service to your friends" - "maybe, if I could get to it but I can't because this stupid poll blocked me, ye wankers!"
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@El-Dorko The very worst is when you get a "How do you like our site?" popup BEFORE YOU EVEN HAVE A CHANGE TO READ A DAMN WORD ON THE PAGE. First impressions are important, but maybe don't take it too far?
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@Makkori said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@El-Dorko The very worst is when you get a "How do you like our site?" popup BEFORE YOU EVEN HAVE A CHANGE TO READ A DAMN WORD ON THE PAGE. First impressions are important, but maybe don't take it too far?
- Go to new Website
- "This website uses Cookies. Click OK to accept." Click "OK".
- "This website wants to show you notifications. Allow?" Click "block".
- "Oh no, it appears you are using an AdBlocker. Please turn it off." Open web developer tools and nuke the dialog div.
- Find and close/pause autoplaying video. Start reading.
- Find and close/pause autoplaying video again. Resume reading.
- Scroll down. Autoplaying video suddenly jumps into view and starts playing again. Close/pause it. Resume reading.
- Sudden dialog! "Was this information useful? Please take this survey to rate our website!" Close out website without finishing, and never ever return.
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@mott555 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Find and close/pause autoplaying video. Start reading.
Find and close/pause autoplaying video again. Resume reading.Whenever I get to one of these overloaded "news" sites with autoplay videos and animated ads all over the place, my first reaction is to hit CTRL-SHIFT-I and nuke any html elements which move in any way. If they come back, I'll be gone quite quickly (except if the article is really, really very interesting maybe). I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
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@El-Dorko said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@PJH Too true; there's so many of these stupid questionnaires popping up left and right these days, I just want that sort of option in all of them. "Would you recommend our service to your friends" - "maybe, if I could get to it but I can't because this stupid poll blocked me, ye wankers!"
DO YOU WANT TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS!?!??!???!????!?!!
BTW if you ever come across the guy who wrote the notifications API for DOM, please punch him in the face for me. The inability for a site to add a custom message when asking to enable is the exact cause of all of those "do you want to receive notifications!????" lightboxes, even if you have THAT ENTIRE FEATURE TURNED OFF. Because there's also no way to query if the feature is on or off.
Fucking awful API. This should be a classroom lesson on how NOT to design an API.
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@blakeyrat
Notification.permissionisn'tdeniedwhen that happens? Sounds like the browser's fault to me.
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@mott555 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Find and close/pause autoplaying video.
DISABLE AUDIO BY DEFAULT FOR ALL WEBSITES
IT MADE ME VERY HAPPY WHEN I FOUND OUT I COULD DO THIS NATIVELY IN CHROME
WHY AM I YELLING
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@ben_lubar YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT WITH AN ADDON BEFORE I STILL USE THE ADDON IT'S CALLED AUTOMUTE
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@blakeyrat said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT WITH AN ADDON BEFORE I STILL USE THE ADDON IT'S CALLED AUTOMUTE
YES I USED THE ADDON AND THEN I MENTIONED IT ON TWITTER A DAY LATER AND SOMEONE POINTED OUT THAT CHROME GOT THE ABILITY TO DO IT NATIVELY ON THE DAY I STARTED USING THE ADDON
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@ben_lubar AH I WASN'T AWARE OF THAT WELL THE ADDON STILL WORKS FINE SO I HAVEN'T BOTHERED LEARNING HOW THE NATIVE FUNCTIONALITY WORKS
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@blakeyrat said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar AH I WASN'T AWARE OF THAT WELL THE ADDON STILL WORKS FINE SO I HAVEN'T BOTHERED LEARNING HOW THE NATIVE FUNCTIONALITY WORKS
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS YELLING SESSION WITH ME
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@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
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@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
*GASP* YOU'RE Mr. Ling?!!?!
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
*GASP* YOU'RE Mr. Ling?!!?!
I have no words. You assumed Ling's gender, you fascist.
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@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
*GASP* YOU'RE Mr. Ling?!!?!
I have no words. You assumed Ling's gender, you fascist.
Hey, now! I never said there wasn't a Mrs. (or Ms.) Ling, nor did I state that Mr. Ling was the owner of the rental-shop.
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@MrL said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
*GASP* YOU'RE Mr. Ling?!!?!
I have no words. You assumed Ling's gender, you fascist.
Hey, now! I never said there wasn't a Mrs. (or Ms.) Ling, nor did I state that Mr. Ling was the owner of the rental-shop.
It says right there that she's female. Can't get much clearer than @LINGsCARS.
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@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
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@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ah, but you don't know how Asian names work, do you? They put the family name first, and then the given name(s) after that. So her name in Western format would be Valentine Ling, which means she definitely could have a husband, who would be Mister Ling or Ling-shì, or perhaps Ling-xiānshēng if he helps run the shop, I think.
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@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@mott555 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Find and close/pause autoplaying video. Start reading.
Find and close/pause autoplaying video again. Resume reading.Whenever I get to one of these overloaded "news" sites with autoplay videos and animated ads all over the place, my first reaction is to hit CTRL-SHIFT-I and nuke any html elements which move in any way. If they come back, I'll be gone quite quickly (except if the article is really, really very interesting maybe). I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
You could also just try Reader mode in your browser first. Won’t work for all sites, but it probably will for ones with actual news articles intended to be read.
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ah, but you don't know how Asian names work, do you? They put the family name first, and then the given name(s) after that. So her name in Western format would be Valentine Ling, which means she definitely could have a husband, who would be Mister Ling or Ling-shì, or perhaps Ling-xiānshēng if he helps run the shop, I think.
Pretty sure "Valentine" isn't the romanization of any Chinese word.
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@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ling Ling, maybe?
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ah, but you don't know how Asian names work, do you? They put the family name first, and then the given name(s) after that. So her name in Western format would be Valentine Ling, which means she definitely could have a husband, who would be Mister Ling or Ling-shì, or perhaps Ling-xiānshēng if he helps run the shop, I think.
Ling is her first name. Surname Valentine comes from her husband.
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@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ah, but you don't know how Asian names work, do you? They put the family name first, and then the given name(s) after that. So her name in Western format would be Valentine Ling, which means she definitely could have a husband, who would be Mister Ling or Ling-shì, or perhaps Ling-xiānshēng if he helps run the shop, I think.
Pretty sure "Valentine" isn't the romanization of any Chinese word.
No, it almost certainly isn't. But many Asians adopt an Occidental name when they move away from their native Oriental country.
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Some people solve that problem elegantly:
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@Zerosquare said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Some people solve that problem elegantly:
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@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@Zerosquare said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Some people solve that problem elegantly:
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@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@Zerosquare said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Some people solve that problem elegantly:
Durian?
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@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@Zerosquare said in Well, this is new, Google.:
Some people solve that problem elegantly:
Durian?
I still wanna try one, some day...
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@Tsaukpaetra What about a nice steaming chunk freshly hacked from the fleshy lobes of a stinking corpse lily?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@Gribnit said in Well, this is new, Google.:
corpse lily
I might just hug her instead.
You're probably thinking of Lily Allen's corpse, but she's not Chinese.
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