Pro tip: clicking Accept will take you to the story.
This is hosted on An Archive of Our Own, the big fanfic site, where there is immeasurable Internet Drama and I guess they need people to agree to some terms of conduct.
Yeah, I could. Or I could just close the tab and walk away, which is what I’ve taken to doing when presented with a page that literally has no visible content on page load. This isn’t an isolated incident either; it seems that more and more sites want to display anything other than the actual content I’m there to read.
There’s more information on the Web than I can read in a human lifetime; I’m happy to prioritize the stuff that’s designed in such a way as to be pleasant to use.
Yes, it is silly that Archive of Our Own shows a warning that “information you publish … will be accessible by the public” even to users who are not logged in and therefore can’t post anything. However, the site is run by a nonprofit organization who I trust to not scam its users with tricks in its terms of service.
You can read the story without agreeing to the terms of service by disabling JavaScript and refreshing. If you want to keep JavaScript enabled, you can instead open your browser’s dev tools, delete the <div id="tos_prompt">, and on the <div id="outer" class="wrapper hidden"> two elements below it, remove hidden from the list of classes.
You can read the story without agreeing to the terms of service by disabling JavaScript and refreshing.
Or I could close the tab and move on with my life, which is how I’ve taken to responding to sites that are so poorly designed that there is no content visible on initial page load. It’s a liberating feeling :)
It echoes a classic speech that also gave life to Alice and Bob.
That took an unexpected turn.
All I saw when browsing this was a full screen ToS pop-up :/
Pro tip: clicking Accept will take you to the story.
This is hosted on An Archive of Our Own, the big fanfic site, where there is immeasurable Internet Drama and I guess they need people to agree to some terms of conduct.
Imagine a web in which every page requires consent. No thank you!
Yeah, I could. Or I could just close the tab and walk away, which is what I’ve taken to doing when presented with a page that literally has no visible content on page load. This isn’t an isolated incident either; it seems that more and more sites want to display anything other than the actual content I’m there to read.
There’s more information on the Web than I can read in a human lifetime; I’m happy to prioritize the stuff that’s designed in such a way as to be pleasant to use.
Yes, it is silly that Archive of Our Own shows a warning that “information you publish … will be accessible by the public” even to users who are not logged in and therefore can’t post anything. However, the site is run by a nonprofit organization who I trust to not scam its users with tricks in its terms of service.
You can read the story without agreeing to the terms of service by disabling JavaScript and refreshing. If you want to keep JavaScript enabled, you can instead open your browser’s dev tools, delete the
<div id="tos_prompt">, and on the<div id="outer" class="wrapper hidden">two elements below it, removehiddenfrom the list of classes.Authors can allow anonymous comments, so you can actually publish things without an account.
Or I could close the tab and move on with my life, which is how I’ve taken to responding to sites that are so poorly designed that there is no content visible on initial page load. It’s a liberating feeling :)
https://archive.is/ppdeY
Link if you want to read the OP without being asked to read and then consent to some legal contract.
Also Alice and Bob (lyrics)