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by bartread 1893 days ago
Indeed: it's incredibly obnoxious and will serve only to irritate most website visitors. It won't turn people against Chrome: it'll turn them against website owners. Seems more focussed on getting a reaction than getting an outcome. Very counterproductive.
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The webpage itself literally says:

"Redirecting people here is probably a dumb idea."

Then why do it? What's the point of this site? You'd have to read that far to see that, whereas my reaction was more along the lines of, "WTF? Oh, for pity's sake... <<clicks back or closes tab>>".
I would imagine that the point of the site is to draw attention and get people who actually care about this stuff to discuss it, and figure out some more appropriate solutions.