[HN Gopher] Are you sure you want to leave YouTube?
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       Are you sure you want to leave YouTube?
        
       Author : aendruk
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2026-01-22 17:20 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
        
       | not_your_vase wrote:
       | Lately Google's image search started to do the same some time
       | ago. Click on an image, and then on the link beneath the image -
       | it first opens a redirection notice which needs to be confirm.
       | Acting like it's something unusual to click on a link from a
       | search result screen...
        
       | ryandrake wrote:
       | > Classic software:                   Primary CTA: what's best
       | for you         Secondary CTA: an alternative for you
       | 
       | > Modern software:                   Primary CTA: what's best for
       | us         Secondary CTA: what's acceptable to us
       | 
       | > It seems like everywhere I go, software is increasingly
       | designed against me.
       | 
       | It's been a long time since Windows 95's "Where do you want to go
       | today?" slogan. Now, every developer's slogan is "Here's where we
       | allow you to go today--and we'll make it hard to go anywhere
       | else."
        
         | collingreen wrote:
         | Here's where we get paid if we make you go today.
        
       | SpicyLemonZest wrote:
       | I can only reproduce this when the link is opened in a different
       | session than it was generated in. Maybe some vulnerability
       | they're trying to mitigate? No idea what it would be though.
        
       | mberlove wrote:
       | Everybody's got a party and if you leave, you ruin the party --
       | apparently. Isolated "walled gardens" are a kind of Intranet.
       | Ingress requires buy-in (sign up, log in, identity proof, human
       | proof); leaving means breaking out to the more transparent,
       | connected internet, which is a big problem when data is dollars.
       | 
       | Maybe I'm reading too much into it. More and more patterns seem
       | hostile, antagonistic to the user, and it seems like it's an
       | adopted practice that's taken as a standard. I hope I'm wrong.
        
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