OVERLAYS
Sorry for shouting, but they are very annoying.
NO I DO NOT WANT TO SIGN UP FOR YOUR NEWSLETTER, BLOGGER WITH A RECIPE I NO LONGER WANT
Agreed. So many websites want you to sign up for their newsletter before you’ve even read the first line of text.
Even they aren’t as bad as the sites that ask for feedback as soon as they open >.<
Also: THIS SITE IS BETTER IN THE APP! Every time you open the site.
If I wanted to use the app, I’d have it installed by now.
This was reddit. Pissed me off so much.
Agreed. Anything that pops up in front of the content I want to see, can fuck off!
I fucking hate this.
Those were popup windows years ago and every browser started blocking them and does to this day. I wish they would start blocking overlays too.
When they ask you about cookies and you can “accept all” in one click, but if you want to reject all that aren’t strictly necessary you have to navigate to a different page
Oh man, especially those that have like 100 toggle switches you have to manually switch. I hate those so much.
Yeah, this should be illegal. I predict California and/or the EU will get rid of it soonish (within the next 10 years maybe? not the most experienced forecaster).
It is IIRC. In the eu I think its mandatory that declining cookies is as easy as accepting.
Protip: Use a VPN and connect to an EU country. You’ll see more of the single “Reject All” buttons.
Which is better but still sucks. The whole thing is flawed from the ground up: In order to remember you opted out of cookies, it is necessary to store a cookie in your browser. Cookies should be op-in but I think it’s obvious this is not gonna happen
Pretty sure a cookie like that would fall under strictly necessary, so you’re still allowed to save it without consent.
Does California have any of these types of tech laws?
Yes, it mandates a Do Not Sell My Personal Information toggle, as I understand it.
Which usually requires an email address, in my experience, so it’s really only worth doing that if you already have an account at that site.
I’ve never been asked for an email address. That sucks.
For me it’s Google search’s tab order. They always switch up the tabs for web, images, videos, etc. depending on what you search for. It makes the experience very unpredictable and annoying.
Recently they’ve also started putting related searches next to the tabs 🤦
This is so frustrating, and another reason I’m going to try to stop using Google.
ok i thought i was going crazy, that’s the most frustrating thing
i only ever use regular search and image search
if i want shopping results i’ll look at walmart or amazon
if i want video results im just searching right on youtube
i don’t need a million different tabs
Chat boxes that popup so that a bot can “help” you find products
Bonus points if it plays audio
Ok god yes, kill it with fire. Any pop-ups that open on the home page of a website actually. Are you trying to get me to immediately leave your site??
Would be cool if it said anything other than something like “I’m sorry I do not understand your request”.
On mobile browser: the ad that “loads” under your finger when you tap on something.
Without counting user-hostile design: automatically playing any sort of sound as soon as you enter the website. Specially radio. Thankfully at least Firefox doesn’t allow this crap any more,
Oh my god I hate twitch for autoplaying some random stream I don’t want to watch on the front page
Anti adblockers, specially when the page is riddled with porn ads
Most of them can be bypassed with uBlock Origin, and if they can’t then I treat that site as if it doesn’t exist
Isn’t there a way to bypass it?
I’m unsure if this still works, but I’ve heard good things about it: https://bogachenko.github.io/fuckfuckadblock/
Not in any special order
- cookie banners
- auto playing anything
- sideways scrolling
sideways scrolling
Also: scroll-jacking.
I decide how many lines I want to scroll with the wheel and I also intentionally disabled “smooth scrolling”. No need to change that, thank you, stupid website!
Same thing with instagram, like when youre scrolling through reels or something it just straight goes to the next one. Ffs.
- Use consent-o-matic extension in Firefox
- Firefox seems to block auto playing videos
- I don’t know any way to fix it, it’s website’s fault
cookie banner
there’s an extension called “I don’t care about cookie” that removes that popup and automatically accept or reject them based on how you set it up
What’s the issue with sideways scrolling?
It’s mostly annoying because there’s no easy way to sidescroll and also, why would you even need to?
I just use my mouses scroll wheel + shift. I’m not saying horizontal scrolling is good but it’s far from the most annoying thing on websites.
When the site hijacks the scroll to play some animation as you scroll down the page
This “mobile first” thing. No, I don’t want 20px fonts for text or absurdly large buttons to click on with my mouse cursor.
And scrolling up and down constantly cause there’s not enough screenspace to show all the information (because 90% of the screenspace is empty or used for enourmous padding)
The ones names already are worst than this one but it needs to be here
Hello, I am a useless Chat Bot, you can ask me any questions but I will certainly not know what you want
Mobile web sites that disable pinch to zoom. I’ve always enabled the setting in Firefox to allow it on all sites, but I still occasionally find one that somehow manages to override my preference.
Dear devs: There is no reason to ever disable it. It’s hostile to all users, and especially those with impaired vision.
As a developer: trust me, we don’t want these features either. It’s project managers and clients who force us to do such things.
Same with links that open in new tabs. Except on pages with inputs that you can fill in, I rarely see any justification for those.
As a user, if I want a page to open in a new tab, I press the middle mouse button. If I press the left mouse button, I don’t want a new tab.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have said devs since it’s usually something from above.
Same with “x” meaning anything except “exit this application,” which isn’t a web issue, but is one of my pet peeves as a user.
As a userAs a developer, if I want a page to open in a new tab, I press the middle mouse button.Ftfy
Most regular users I’ve seen use the internet don’t even know middle-click or ctrl+click opens in a new tab, or any other useful shortcuts for that matter.
Autoplay while scrolling.
Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…
Those horrible news sites where they show these ads for all kinds of garbage as you try to go back to the previous page you were on.
When a website changes the scrolling to be smooth and slow. Like I don’t want my scrolling to accelerate really slowly for ages and then decelerate for the same amount of time, I want my scrolling to be quick and responsive.
Also when websites change scrolling to be anything other than scrolling, like the iMac 24-inch Website when the scrolling animates the screen and stand instead of just scrolling.
I had to go there to see what you mean - and I see what you mean! How very annoying.
