Ads are fine. The "fuck you" pattern is letting you see the cat picture for 5 seconds before covering it up and requiring you to create an account and share your data with Facebook before you can see it.
This isn't a "fuck you" pattern. They gave you a social media Costco food sample.
It’s still an obnoxious thing to do, which is the point of the article.
Apparently not video games. Not many game companies offer demos anymore because they actually hurt sales.
> Apparently not video games. Not many game companies offer demos anymore because they actually hurt sales.
That's interesting. Is that because the demo cannibalizes sales (ie. people have enough fun just playing the demo they don't feel compelled to buy the game), or because the demo undermines the game's value proposition (ie. people don't buy the crappy game because the demo makes the crappiness evident)?
Letting you glance at it then making it disappear is not a demo.