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by cvsh 3097 days ago
Pretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".
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It's essentially an ad that gets you to click it by making you think you are somehow logged in on a site you don't have an account on. I emailed them about this because I think it's an awful pattern, and did get a response but not one that indicated they understood the problem with this deceptive marketing technique. It makes me avoid clicking links to dev.to.