<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[New dark pattern trend of triggering a fake browser error “There was a problem loading the page. Please click OK to learn more”]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Tried to visit <a href="http://iheartumami.com" rel="nofollow ugc">iheartumami.com</a> using my (defensive) browser. The popup is nothing that was generated by the website, but rather an error message of the browser’s own creation. Yet I can see very well that the webpage rendered fine.</p>
<p dir="auto">Normally if my <strong>Auto Overlay Remover</strong> extension does not remove a popup, I can force it to run to get rid of the popup. But because <a href="http://iheartumami.com" rel="nofollow ugc">iheartumami.com</a> was designed by some obnoxious sneaky motherfuckers, they somehow tricked the browser into falsely believing that it failed to load the page. The browser’s <em><strong>own</strong></em> popup blocks us from seeing the whole page. The user is /forced/ to:</p>
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<li>click <em><strong>cancel</strong></em>, which just loops. The assholes have you re-fetching the page and wasting bandwidth, b/c why would they give a shit about carbon footprints?</li>
<li>click <em><strong>ok</strong></em>, which leads to yet another popup that demands you enable ads and popups with nothing else rendered, thus defeating the overlay remover.</li>
<li>or leave it in an tab while viewing another, in which case the page reloads repeatedly non-stop which abuses both the user’s bandwidth and the website’s bandwidth.</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">This particular assault which somehow abuses our browser’s error detection has become increasingly popular lately.</p>
<p dir="auto">The circumvention: <code>$ torsocks lynx iheartumami.com</code>. But not useful if pics are important.</p>


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