Front-end authentication wall
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Today I was casually strolling the internet and encountered this site:
http://www.phloxblog.in/angular-js-watch-observe/
Is that an interesting article about the distinction between angularjs watch and observe functions? I will certainly settle down to read it for reasons- huh? A front-end login form overlay? Oh dear, I guess I'll have to login or sign up. Or I could run this code in the console:
jQuery('.list-boost-wrapper').hide();jQuery('.after-form').hide();
Newscientist.com among other sites used to have a front-end login/paywall. I'm sure it catches many people who don't know how to front-end the interwebs, which is just about everyone except web developers.
When the article is specifically about the finer points of front-end interwebs though...
Maybe it's a wordpress 3rd-party login form (I'm guessing at wordpress). Maybe it's a test to see if people are worthy of reading the blog. Maybe TRWTF is me for appearing to complain about something that's actually working in my favour.
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Probably more effective than the old expert sexchange guys and their ahead of the curve infinite scrolling.
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They really thought that would work on their target audience? Seems like a JDGI scenario ..
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1-- they have a "no thanks" button to click.
2 -- that article, if you know angular at all, is useless. It doesn't contain any knowledge which you don't already have; and it's actually full of typos and word ommissions. I'd recommend skipping it altogether.
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Lol...you're funny.
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There have been several high-profile sites to make the lazy and/or nooby mistake of simply covering their content with a nuisance banner instead of actually paywalling it.
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1-- they have a "no thanks" button to click
This makes OP TRWTF for thinking too hard.
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Well, there are two ways to have content on a site:
- Have content on the site that gets indexed by search engines and brings you hitmen / ad views / product publicity
- Require authentication before sharing your content and make money regardless of whether people like your product.
- Be a moron and try to combine the two resulting in the worst of both worlds.
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Well, there are two ways to have content on a site:
<ol type="1"><li>Have content on the site that gets indexed by search engines and brings you hitmen / ad views / product publicity</li></ol><ol type="A" start="2"><li>Require authentication before sharing your content and make money regardless of whether people like your product.</li></ol><ol type="i" start="3"><li>Be a moron and try to combine the two resulting in the worst of both worlds.</li></ol>
I seem to recall expert sexchange used to hide their content from regular users but showed it to Google if the user identified themselves as such. Google was not impressed, and promptly dinged expert sexchange for it, hence the abomination of fake hiding content.
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I thought it was always just a case of having the patience to scroll past all the crap below the question to get to the thread of replies?
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I thought it was always just a case of having the patience to scroll past all the crap below the question to get to the thread of replies?
That was the second coming. The first coming of expert sexchange required you to change your user agent to Googlebot to crack open the bounty.
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they have a "no thanks" button to click
Oh right. I guess that makes sense.
@Lying Login Form said:
Sign Up to read the rest of the content
What is this? Monty Python?
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This makes OP TRWTF for thinking too hard.
/> pick lock
Door opens. It was never locked! Muradin laughs at you and sings a song about gold.
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I thought it was always just a case of having the patience to scroll past all the crap below the question to get to the thread of replies?
Only if you came from a google link. If you got there from any other referrer, the content is not there at all, just ads. I believe this is still true today.
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Oh right. I guess that makes sense.
@Lying Login Form said:
Sign Up to read the rest of the content
What is this? Monty Python?
Monty Python would probably make you sign up then log out to read it because that is how they roll - juxtaposing the tangential.
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Frontend authentication against web developers?
TRWTF, +1 -
Frontend authentication against ordinary users?
Good enough.
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My facebook suddenly split in half
Too bad his face didn't split in half ...
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@Spencer said:
I thought it was always just a case of having the patience to scroll past all the crap below the question to get to the thread of replies?
Only if you came from a google link.Did anyone ever not get there through google?
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Oh dear, I guess I'll have to login or sign up. Or I could run this code in the console:
Or you could use my magic bookmarklet. It worked here.
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That one weirdo using Bing?
I'm not that weird. Then you get to know me, and I'm weird all over again.Yes, I honest to $Deity use Bing as my main search engine. Hell, my phone is a Windows Phone
They got 50% more users then Yahoo!
Yahoo's search is actually done through Bing, has for a while now
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Yes, I honest to $Deity use Bing as my main search engine.
As do I. The incentive for actual products as a result of searching makes it a bit nicer, when I have to jump through the same hoops for good searches as I would with Google. Plus, the time spent searching is on-task for me.
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As do I. The incentive for actual products as a result of searching makes it a bit nicer
Would be nice if Bing Rewards worked here in Australia. Maybe I should just use a US account so I can start cashing in on this
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Yeah, that sucks. I didn't switch to Bing because of that, it was just extra.
I'd gotten tired of Google trying to help with all of my searches by ignoring me when I kept wanting it to look for specific terms or excluding other terms.
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Yahoo's search is actually done through Bing, has for a while now
And Bing cheats by using Google. So we all use Google in the end.
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How is it cheating? The data comes from the IE8 toolbar basically reporting back "someone searched for X and clicked these links to pages from the results", the assumption being that those pages are probably the most relevant to that search query (I don't think it just tracks Google searches either, but any search, eg. on forums etc too). It's effectively crowd-sourced search.
The analogy given in that blog post would be more accurate if Bing was actually running the same query on Google and presenting those results as it's own, which it isn't. Rather, it's more like sourcing a collection of recipes for the carbonara and combining them with your own knowledge.
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That gives me an idea...
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Ok, I searched for
clfejtnqmrnt
and Google hasAbout 175,000,000 results
and Bing has19,600,000 RESULTS
.None of the results on the first pages are the same.
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clfejtnqmrnt
that would be because you just searched for "cleaning" when google FTFY, and "clement" from bing.
try "clfejtnqmrnt" for 1 result from google.
which insanely is from your post in this forum:Front-end authentication wall - What the Daily WTF? what.thedailywtf.com/t/front-end-authentication-wall/1906/34 35 mins ago - Ok, I searched for clfejtnqmrnt and Google has About 175,000,000 results and Bing has 19,600,000 RESULTS . None of the results on the first ...
And 0 results from Bing:
No results found for "clfejtnqmrnt".
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See? Google really does have better results.
Or a TDWTF fetish.
Or both.
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Ok, I searched for
clfejtnqmrnt
and Google hasAbout 175,000,000 results
and Bing has19,600,000 RESULTS
.None of the results on the first pages are the same.
For me, both do the "did you mean..." for a different word - Google thinks I meant "cleaning", and although it gives me an option just to search for the original term, it comes up with nothing (and goes back to "did you mean cleaning?" with the top local results). Bing thinks I meant to search for "clement" and doesn't try anything else.
These results might vary by region
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For me, both do the "did you mean..." for a different word - Google thinks I meant "cleaning", and although it gives me an option just to search for the original term, it comes up with nothing (and goes back to "did you mean cleaning?" with the top local results). Bing thinks I meant to search for "clement" and doesn't try anything else.
These results might vary by region
You have been hanzoNinjad.
Also, if you don't live in the Southern US then the "did you mean" results are not particularly region-sensitive.
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the "did you mean" results are not particularly region-sensitive.
I meant more the original search might be region specific, mainly that Asian, European or African originating searches might get different results
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You have been hanzoNinjad.
Yeah, I took a bit longer to post because I wanted to compare in a private browsing tab lest being logged in to Bing and Google affect the results
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Or a TDWTF fetish.
There are days I wonder if I didn't catch that. Beter go wash my hands again.
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Ok, I searched for
clfejtnqmrnt
and Google hasAbout 175,000,000 results
and Bing has19,600,000 RESULTS
.None of the results on the first pages are the same.
You failed the Bing Challenge.
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Here's a boring question: which browser is that?
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In case that question was serious:
It looks very much like the DOM-Inspector Firefox shipped with.
They have a new layout now (according to this firefox) which looks different but a google search still gives the old layout away.
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Welcome to Discourse. Notice your tag was broken for you, too.
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Error, does not compute.
Why would you? Bing Rewards (for those in the US), and roaming settings and search history (so anyone who picks up your phone/tablet can see the weird porn you searched for when you forgot to use a private tab)The gigapan-style front image is a nice touch
Edit: frakking Discourse and html tags in quotes...
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That image took so long to load that it was like being on 56k again.
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