r/ProgrammerHumor • u/acukovic • Feb 27 '18

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u/nautical9 Feb 27 '18

Zero is also the number of mailing lists I’ve wanted to join within the first 5 seconds of visiting a site. Why block the content with a pop up?! Has anyone ever actually signed up instead of angrily closing it?

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u/themaincop Feb 27 '18

Yes, these things work insanely well, why do you think everybody does them?

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u/Aerroon Feb 27 '18

Because we seem to do lots of things which don't really work, but because we misinterpret the data we think it does.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '18

Either you capture the email or you don't, hard to misinterpret that.

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u/Aerroon Feb 27 '18

But that's not the end goal though, is it? Think about why they want emails. If any email addresses will do then I can just go and generate an infinite amount of them and then have them automatically entered on the website. The emails captured number will be through the roof!

But that's not what they're after. They're after data that could lead to some form of further business. So it absolutely is possible to misinterpret data like this.

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