Oh man I didn’t even notice the “unsubscribe at any time”. Does asking for the code automatically put you on his newsletter? That’s a dark pattern alright.
Webneko chases the scroll buddy, scroll
Buddy panicks (To him, webneko is 2 meters tall, and hungry) and runs down the page, this scrolls the neko upwards, away.
Scroll buddy is relieved, but the neko doesn’t stop, it doesn’t get tired. The chase continues until theres no more page to scroll, scroll buddy is pounced upon and gruesomely devoured, he thinks to himself as the shock sets in: “If only there was some kind of giant mouse around to distract this fiend… why oh why was I loaded into an ipad??”
One of my favourite Firefox tweaks is making the scrollbar be chunky and easy to use. this hack reminds me that I’ve got that customisation on, and I’m thankful it still works, but I’m sadly certain it will go away at some point.
asks for you email address for the code? no thanks
I’m so tired of the constant begging to sign up for mailing lists, etc. exhausting.
Oh man I didn’t even notice the “unsubscribe at any time”. Does asking for the code automatically put you on his newsletter? That’s a dark pattern alright.
When it got posted elsewhere recently, someone mirrored the code on github:
https://github.com/jwenjian/scroll-buddy
Having to constantly be alert to dark patterns like this is getting very tiresome, indeed.
Neko of the next generation.
Would be fun if there was some kind of interop
Webneko chases the scroll buddy, scroll Buddy panicks (To him, webneko is 2 meters tall, and hungry) and runs down the page, this scrolls the neko upwards, away. Scroll buddy is relieved, but the neko doesn’t stop, it doesn’t get tired. The chase continues until theres no more page to scroll, scroll buddy is pounced upon and gruesomely devoured, he thinks to himself as the shock sets in: “If only there was some kind of giant mouse around to distract this fiend… why oh why was I loaded into an ipad??”
One of my favourite Firefox tweaks is making the scrollbar be chunky and easy to use. this hack reminds me that I’ve got that customisation on, and I’m thankful it still works, but I’m sadly certain it will go away at some point.
Doesn’t seem to work on Windows firefox
works on windows+firefox here
Nor Linux FF