I can't help but notice that I got an interruptive ad asking for my email address on a site that's supposed to be about privacy.
I understand it's a Substack, but something about that just felt jarring given the subject matter.
I understand it's a Substack, but something about that just felt jarring given the subject matter.
Privacy is about giving people the freedom to choose how their personal information is distributed. Sounds like they are respecting your privacy.
That's one take, and I won't argue that it's an unreasonable one.
That said, if you asked me to describe the UX patterns I might expect to find on a privacy-respecting website, interrupting me to ask me for personal information probably wouldn't be on that list. I probably also wouldn't have expected to see the third-party tracking pixels from Cloudflare, Datadog, and Google, etc.
That's okay. It's not egregious, it's just a bit odd, like if you were reading Apache documentation on a site served by IIS.
Even on HN, theres's people complaining about things that happen to them because they are not running an adblocker.
You want privacy? That's the place to start.