• TrenchcoatFullOfBats
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    1 year ago

    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

    • dekatronOP
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      281 year ago

      Agreed. So many websites want you to sign up for their newsletter before you’ve even read the first line of text.

    • @chtk@feddit.nl
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      211 year ago

      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.

    • Deez
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      101 year ago

      Agreed. Anything that pops up in front of the content I want to see, can fuck off!

    • @fsw@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      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.

  • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    561 year ago

    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

    • Link.wav [he/him]
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      151 year ago

      Oh man, especially those that have like 100 toggle switches you have to manually switch. I hate those so much.

    • radix
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      91 year ago

      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).

        • Hauke
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          71 year ago

          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

          • Ghoelian
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            51 year ago

            Pretty sure a cookie like that would fall under strictly necessary, so you’re still allowed to save it without consent.

        • TrenchcoatFullOfBats
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          61 year ago

          Protip: Use a VPN and connect to an EU country. You’ll see more of the single “Reject All” buttons.

      • Dandroid
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        01 year ago

        Does California have any of these types of tech laws?

        • radix
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          21 year ago

          Yes, it mandates a Do Not Sell My Personal Information toggle, as I understand it.

          • TrenchcoatFullOfBats
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            1 year ago

            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.

            • radix
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              11 year ago

              I’ve never been asked for an email address. That sucks.

    • @Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      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??

    • dekatronOP
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      11 year ago

      Would be cool if it said anything other than something like “I’m sorry I do not understand your request”.

  • dekatronOP
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    491 year ago

    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 🤦

    • uhauljoe
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      51 year ago

      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

  • Lvxferre
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    351 year ago

    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,

  • ciagovv
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    291 year ago

    Anti adblockers, specially when the page is riddled with porn ads

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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      161 year ago

      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!

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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        31 year ago

        Same thing with instagram, like when youre scrolling through reels or something it just straight goes to the next one. Ffs.

    • @starman@programming.dev
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      91 year ago
      1. Use consent-o-matic extension in Firefox
      2. Firefox seems to block auto playing videos
      3. I don’t know any way to fix it, it’s website’s fault
    • @Magrid@lemm.ee
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      31 year ago

      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

        • @HolyHell@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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          31 year ago

          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.

  • Link.wav [he/him]
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    221 year ago

    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.

    • @oktupol@feddit.de
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      111 year ago

      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.

      • Link.wav [he/him]
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        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.

      • Ghoelian
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        31 year ago

        As a user As 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.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    211 year ago

    This “mobile first” thing. No, I don’t want 20px fonts for text or absurdly large buttons to click on with my mouse cursor.

    • @klangcola@reddthat.com
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      111 year ago

      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)

  • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)
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    201 year ago

    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
  • Big P
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    201 year ago

    When the site hijacks the scroll to play some animation as you scroll down the page

    • dekatronOP
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      41 year ago

      Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…

  • @max@feddit.nl
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    161 year ago

    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.

  • @Flottschi@lemmy.world
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    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.