Future Monads in JS, Python, and More

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16 points·kevin_bloch··4 comments

I started to scroll the page as I was reading when a huge header appeared, followed me as I scrolled, and took up screen real-estate because... well, why not, I guess. I used uBlock Origin's element blocker to make it disappear. Refresh the page for it to take affect.

Start scrolling as I attempted to again read the article when a progress bar began to grow from the left side of my browser, impeding the paragraph I was on. Used uBlock Origin's element blocker to make it disappear. No refresh needed this time.

About 4 seconds later, the entire screen is frozen, fades into an unavoidable text box, asking for my email address.

I'll give 'em credit: they worked hard to bounce me out of there and they triumphed.

Wow that second overlay is an impressively rage-based punitive and user-hating dark pattern if I ever saw one.

Thinking about it now, looks like I've just found an unexpected advantage of having the browser tabs on the left side, like I do.

Those scripts work by detecting a cursor movement towards the top of the window, predicting that you're about to close or switch to another tab. With Tree Style Tabs or Tab Center Redux, which put all the tabs on the left side of the window, those are rarely triggered :)

the "and more" being Ruby, Swift, and Scala :)

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