Are you sure you want to leave YouTube?

17 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by aendruk

3 Comments

ryandrake

an hour ago

> Classic software:

    Primary CTA: what’s best for you
    Secondary CTA: an alternative for you
> Modern software:

    Primary CTA: what’s best for us
    Secondary CTA: what’s acceptable to us
> It seems like everywhere I go, software is increasingly designed against me.

It's been a long time since Windows 95's "Where do you want to go today?" slogan. Now, every developer's slogan is "Here's where we allow you to go today--and we'll make it hard to go anywhere else."

not_your_vase

5 hours ago

Lately Google's image search started to do the same some time ago. Click on an image, and then on the link beneath the image - it first opens a redirection notice which needs to be confirm. Acting like it's something unusual to click on a link from a search result screen...

SpicyLemonZest

32 minutes ago

I can only reproduce this when the link is opened in a different session than it was generated in. Maybe some vulnerability they're trying to mitigate? No idea what it would be though.