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Unrelated to actual content: if you visit the site with ad-blocker on, it does not load. Instead, you just have this icon of the eye looking at you and blinking. And the eye will just blink until you turn ad-blocker off.

I know the site is called "eye on design", but the associations of user tracking via ads and this blinking eye were amusing to me. Imagine having a blinking eye in the corner of each website for each tracker it has :)

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Is that what's going on?

Regardless of your stance on ad blockers, simply showing a mysterious eye without telling you you should stop your ad blocker sounds like awful design.

"Inspect element" shows that the eye belongs to:

    <div class="loader"></div>

I think it's meant to be a placeholder animation that goes away when the content is available rather than a cryptic visual for users with an ad blocker. It's definitely a weird net effect.

Whitelisting licdn.com fixes it. If dig deeper and check the ublock origin logger, it looks like it's trying to load https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js, and if it's blocked the page never loads.

Completely in line with modern design philosophy, though. Why use words when you can use a mysterious hieroglyph?

Especially since it breaks alt-left-arrow for "back".

That's odd.. may I ask which ad-blocker you were using? I visited it with both Privacy Badger & uBlock Origin running (on FF) and it loaded for me.

I'm doing all of that, but I got a response similar to the above person, except, the eye didn't blink at me.

Correction: It just blinked at me.

uBlock Origin on Firefox Android gave me the eye.

I'm using only Privacy Badger. I also got just the blinking eye.

Loads just fine with uBlock Origin on FF.

I've got Firefox with strict privacy mode, uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Privacy Badger. I just got the eye and spent a couple of minutes tweaking settings until I gave up.

uBlock Origin v1.33.2 on Firefox linux blocks the entire page from loading for me. wasn't sure if it was one of those puzzle websites or something.

Interesting design choice. When I load the site fresh with ublock origin I get through, but when I visit the page a second time I get the eye forever (confirmed by replicating on a private window).

It loaded fine for me on Chrome with uBlock Origin and uMatrix.

And if you leave the page alone for a while, a bunch of eyes will show up and partially cover the content. They go away if you click them.

I very briefly get the eye and then the site loads using Safari with Wipr content blocker.

Looks like you get through once and then it blocks you. Ctrl-F5 fixes it.

Why can’t I down vote this ahhh totally sabotages the entire thread

Opened without any problem with ublock origin.

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