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As an aside: somewhat ironic that a shop selling gear such as this has such a large 3rd-party javascript footprint. At least some of that js is required for the page to work, as I'm unable to see pictures of the device. I counted 25 3rd party domains in uMatrix. That's quite the attack surface.



I bought something from them once, and they shared my email address with Facebook to do targeted advertising - that was not something I expected they would do.


How is that ironic? Seems more in-character. Selling a device to steal data, they also extract data from whomever is visiting the site.


It threw a modal at me after enabling scripts and scrolling a bit. Yeah, not reading further.


Oh why thank you. Yes, I just landed on your page for the first time, looking around to see what you got there.

What? If only I give you my email adress you will send me info about your page on a weekly basis as if I were the most interested person? And I have no guarantee you wont share my adress further? That sounds like an amazing deal! Let me sign up right now, before I even can read a paragraph on your page, I feel like I will definetly not regret it.

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Seriously, how do these modals still have high enough conversion rate to justify their existence?


You can get pictures if you enable scripts for a couple of shopify domains, but it just looks like an ordinary USB cable, which is kind of the point.




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