This absolutely happens on Reddit's mobile site; a little popup-overlay/link reading "Continue on the app!" blocks the content you're reading like you've run out of free Quora questions, can't be closed, and persists on reload.
Maybe they don't do that, but for sure they log me out almost every day from Firefox/Android and I'm willing to bet dollars to peanuts they don't do that on the app.
I even have freaking 2FA but they still don't remember the device and ask me every time for the code.
i think that happens because of cookies, if they're cleared you get logged out. do you have settings on firefox that do that? i don't use it so can't tell you.
Try it on Firefox. Plenty of things don't happen on Chrome because that's all devs test. That and Safari iOS.
Which does make things less of an evil intent and more of a "if our laziness pushes our users to where we make money, that's an unfortunate side effect".
Once you eat the cake, you can no longer possess it
EDIT:
Let me make it more clear, as English may not be your first language, if you're asking this question in truth (I sometimes miss sarcasm online, sorry).
Cakes can be beautiful things which people (of a certain time period, especially) wanted to show off as a sign of their wealth, as refined sugar was expensive. Once it was eaten, you could no longer display such wasteful extravagance.
There's a similar idiom in a couple different languages. The French supposedly say 'avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre' (have the butter and the money from [selling] the butter), and I once recalled hearing that there was a Spanish idiom along the lines of having a chicken in both the pot and in the yard, but alas I'm not able to find that phrase.
| i hate how americans always assume we are from there and understand everything they say |
It's a forum where everyone was typing in English, so my first assumption was that English was your fist language. I didn't say anything about American. And I tried to fix my mistake =/
It works on Fennec, even in private mode. (Fennec is the F-Droid Firefox build.) Do you have any addons? It works with uBlock Origin on desktop, haven't tried mobile.
I'm on a desktop using FF with uBO, both with fairly locked-down configs, and it doesn't work for me. That is, both websites eventually lead to a broken page because of too many redirects, and the URLs in the URL bars of each tab do not contain the same ID.
Without digging too deep into what your websites are doing, I did notice that they're trying to set / read cookies, which is a) being blocked by uMatrix in general, and b) perhaps being blocked by me having configured FF to block third-party cookies in particular.
I don't know what the redirect was but given the article is behind the Medium paywall, if it was a t.co redirect, it was probably the submitter's way to let everyone skip the paywall.
Are people seriously this tied in to their computers? I'd hate to see myself get to the point where I don't have time for women and need to be beeped in order to pay attention.
Are you familiar with the concept of deep work? Sometimes you need a solid block of completely uninterrupted time to keep your cache/working memory hot so that you can see the whole task through. My wife used to interrupt me all the time - even in the middle of a wim hof breath hold. I'm looking at her like, this is the 10,000th time I have done this, and we do it together sometimes, why do you think I can respond to you in this moment?
Or maybe people just want to have something special for their loved ones to help THEM feel special to them.
I had considered making something for my girlfriend also, because she loves that I'm a nerd and I wanted to use my nerdiness to make her something special, even if it is just a button for her to press that lights up a light on my desk, just so she can tell me she's thinking of me.
Doesn't mean he's completely tied to it. He may be only focused on his hobby. That can happen with anything. Woodworking, drawing, reading, whatever. Being on constant alert isn't healthy. Everyone needs some time for themselves to power down a bit.
Looking at some of the results from your screenshot more closely, they appear to be hacked Plesk[0] sites like geocrasher describes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117918
this has never happened to me in 5+ years of using reddit