• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    How, after like 70 years of mainstream TV show and movie broadcasts, can anyone still think advertising and commercials are a good idea?

    (answer to both: it’s because they separate the fool from their money often enough to be a viable revenue strategy)

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      15 hours ago

      As a web developer: I do.

      There was never a need to have things open in a new popup to begin with so having to have people disable their blocker just to perform some action is friction that should be motivating us developers to step back and say “why the hell am I doing this?”

      I’m of the opinion that popups should’ve never existed at the technical level in the first place.