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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Dec 2012

    Fuck you @cnet, for showing fuck-all respect to your users with this fucked-up ad format. Please fix. Thank you.pic.twitter.com/fPQ4oZnv

    4:12 PM - 8 Dec 2012
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      2. Anna Debenham  🦔‏ @anna_debenham 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @cnet That thing has been on pretty much every tech site I've visited in the last few days.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @anna_debenham

        @anna_debenham Must be a Department of Evil Ideas somewhere with rooms of people practicing maniacal laughs as they come up with this stuff.

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      4. Anna Debenham  🦔‏ @anna_debenham 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I think @harrybr should add it to his dark pattern library.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @anna_debenham

        @anna_debenham @harrybr Agreed :)

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      2. Baz Scott‏ @bazscott 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral serves you right for reading @cnet Aral ;)

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @bazscott

        @bazscott In my defence, I followed a link on Twitter & had to hit their main page to make the ad show again for the screenshot :) +@CNET

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      4. Baz Scott‏ @bazscott 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral yeah yeah ;) that's the only time I ever see the daily mail: tap > oh shit > close > cleanse browser history :)

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      1. Jamie Mills‏ @jamiemills 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral @cnet most annoying ads ever; thx @SamsungUK

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      1. Ana Nelson‏ @ananelson 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral There should be mandatory user testing and if heart rate/bp shoots above a certain threshold, that form of ad is illegal.

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      1. Tugberk Ugurlu‏ @tourismgeek 9 Dec 2012
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        @aral "fuck you" and "thank you" looks super awkward in one tweet.

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      1. Liam Moody‏ @liammoody 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral had the same on Reuters website the other day. Couldn’t believe what was happening.pic.twitter.com/6btf5q48

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      1. Amber Weinberg‏ @amberweinberg 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral what's the x in the top left corner do?

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      1. Brian Behrend‏ @bhrnd 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral @brad_frost I see the close button but unless I’m missing something that’s a story not an ad. It links to http://m.cnet.com/news/digital-storage-basics-backup-vs-redundancy/57556308?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0 …

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      1. Brown‏ @_djabrown 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral A news site that asks if malware should be a factor in iOS vs. Android is not worth reading. That ad is just the cherry on the cake.

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      1. bowlandspoon ツ‏ @bowlandspoon 8 Dec 2012
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        @aral @CNET Saw that yesterday. Fucking worst way of advertising ever.

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