I hate

The dad's also a racist, which is great. We don't talk.

Why do so many rich people have such bland tastes when it comes to interior decor? All these expensive, modern houses that get posted in here look exactly the fucking same and are completely devoid of any character.

Because they are McMansions for footballers, insta influencers, and gymwear entrepeneurs?

I would imagine that if they looked at the 'don't move, improve' long list, they would ask why lawyers, consultants, finance and media people all live in similar terraced houses in Hackney with functionally identical kitchen diner extensions.

And that many people with large but unreliable incomes, or a lack of longevity, can't get a mortgage and so they don't bother with as much "investment" into a property to make it their own.

Footballers are a classic example of this.

functionally identical kitchen diner extensions.

This entire forum rn

It's not done to my taste, but in fairness they are trying to sell it. So it's probably been made fairly generic.

This is also near me which probably fits your description (although I quite like some bits):

https://www.fineandcountry.co.uk/radlett-estate-agents/property-sale/6-bedroom-detached-house-for-sale-in-theobald-street-orchard-view/2364233

Something I've noticed as a trend across these properties that I don't personally like, is lots of marble. That said lots of people on here also seem to like those large marble shower tiles or work surfaces.

Personally I would really struggle with a large budget to style my home. Limited space and budget really narrows down my options and makes decisions quicker. Even if sometimes it frustratingly rules out nice stuff.

The snowflake generation rearing it's ugly head once again.

It's not snowflakery causing ever-increasing crash protection, which makes the doors on small cars too thick. Again, it's all the fault of cunts who buy 3t wankmobiles. It's an arms race situation.

This crap also makes every car heavier and means the beltline has to be higher, which is the reason cars haven't looked any good since about 2010.

Seriously, fuck those wankmobile cunts.

Imagine you could snap your fingers and eliminate exhaust pollution - great, but now there's still a growing amount of particulate pollution from tyre wear, and fixing roads damaged by giant tanks at the rate of the fourth power of their mass makes a lot of CO2...

Here's a thought - peeps lose their shit over threats to children; maybe we should be calling the giant wankmobiles kid-crushers or something.

Oh wait, peeps only lose their shit over the threat of sexual assault of kids, that's right. All the other threats - poverty, climate change, shit education and health funding, etc etc etc - don't rate a blip.

Genuine question - what effect does it have on your user experience? If there a the occasions when a UTM link is detrimental to the user, then I personally would weigh up that against the benefits. As it is, I can’t think of a negative aspect. Copy paste sharing maybe? But they usually redirect and are shortened shrug

Agree over the children thing.

People still have the idea of cycling is some sort of failure, when in fact should be welcomed. Less cars nicer environment. I hate driving in London.

I don't click on tracking links (or load images) so if I so want to read the 'attached document' or need to fill out the linked form or something then I have to hunt for it on the website or email and ask for it.

It's a PITA which I accept is partly of my making but I don't like tracking links. I'd unsubscribe but I don't think there is another way to get the information, some of which has legal significance (eg changes to safeguarding or insurance).

If it is marketing email from a random company I'll unsubscribe or /dev/null it.

I always opt out of any tracking cookies yet my phone says it’s spotted these. I probably agreed to Bikepacking but not to any other tracking

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Ok so I understood from your original post that you don’t like them, I was trying to figure out why, what the negative effect of them is. If they annoy people, it goes into the risk/reward calculation for any organisation, whether commercial or non-profit. ( I do a bunch of marketing emails for various people, UTMs are v important for this, but if it actually could be creating a problem then I would reassess)

Obv it seems odd to use them in communication with existing volunteers rather than outreach fundraising stuff, but I guess the data must be useful to them in gauging the success of whatever action they want you to take. Drop-off rate of people filling out the form or something maybe.

I’d never considered that people might set up a system to strip UTM linked content from an email

I think many more people would be upset by view and click tracking if they knew about it. I find it invasive. If I couldn't sleep last night so spent some time reading emails I don't want to share that with the people that sent the email.

I can understand that for sure – I guess I'd also never considered setting up a segment of subs who open and click during the early hours for their timezone, or something like that. All my work is for small businesses so it's just not even close to being on the radar!

The same people who believed Thatcher when she said you had failed in life if you took the bus.

Sounds a bit tin foil. View tracking fine, but the url parameters are so the onsite analytics knows where you came from, so that the people who run the site can make it better, from viewing aggregated reporting. They’re not looking at you individually. They would like to know if their emails are driving people to the site in order to view the file or whatever. Was the email good at the intended purpose? The parameters are likely added automatically to all emails from their CRM system.

I don’t think that many people would actually care, and I think more people know about it than you think.

Yet get on your bike to get a job.

Seems counter intuitive, but other cyclists are terrible tho.

They’re not looking at you individually.

And yet the URLs are individual. I don't mind http://something.com/report df?source=email, I object to http://something.com/report.pdf?user=19475834927364

I think it means they don't look at you individually, and have no current intentions to look at you individually, but since individual data has been gathered for years it means they can start doing that at any time, and look retrospectively if they wanted to.

If the data is not needed then don't gather it.

I do my best to remove the tracking info from links before clicking on them, and many browsers offer the option to do this automatically too.

I'm sure the number of people who care about this are vastly outweighed by the number of people that just click on a link regardless, but I certainly have stopped using certain sites/retailers due to their invasive tracking (and the site will have no idea that is why I stopped using/visiting them).

In fact, maybe I should be doing a GDPR SAR for each annoying place I get a unique link from (where geographically appropriate). Easy for me to do, cumulatively annoying for the retailer/site.

Company auditing, policies, procedures. My god, this stuff is SO dull..I can't get into it at all. Should be left to people who enjoy it/have brains that work in the necessary way.

My snowflake comment was 100% tongue in cheek cuntery. Maybe not as obvious as I'd hoped!

Company auditing, policies, procedures...

That's my job.

I'm sorry to hear that!

I am just not capable of doing it and because I can't interpret the language and structure, I lose interest and therefore find it difficult to improve and progress. I work in a company that values versatility and flexibility to do different tasks, so it's telling that there are very few able and willing auditors. Very sought after and quite a specialised role?

Things like insurance that automatically go up in price disproportionately because you're a loyal/lazy customer. I don't want to have to research this again to check the policies etc but it's too important not to.