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.
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”.
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
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.
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.
Agreed. Anything that pops up in front of the content I want to see, can fuck off!
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 >.<
I fucking hate this.
Autoplay while scrolling.
Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…
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 🤦
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
This is so frustrating, and another reason I’m going to try to stop using Google.
Algoritmes that make sure u can’t find a post again when u mis click or something. Facebook/Instagram drive me nuts because of this.
“would you like to receive notifications in your browser from this site?”
No. No I would not.
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
That popup asking about cookies because they cause cancer in California or whatever. It should auto decline cookies and have a button at the bottom to manually sign over your first born child if you choose to do so.
On mobile browser: the ad that “loads” under your finger when you tap on something.
This modern one-page website style, where when you click on a Link in the menu it just scrolls you down to that part.
I mean it’s ok for Wikipedia where you basically have a document, but I hate it for multimedia or company stuff.
Most of the time it’s coupled with these animation instead of actually scrolling shit.
Mousing over a UI element causes it to expand and cover neighboring UI elements.
Floating menu bars that scroll with the page.
Overriding the browser’s built in keyboard combos and context menus.
“Hero” header images.
Requiring Javascript to render static text.
Styling the scrollbar.
Modal dialogs of any kind.
Breaking the “Back” button.
I used a shopping website today, where mousing over the header pops up a fullscreen navigation menu, and the only way to close it is to mouse over an empty part of the header. Made me do a lot of cursor gymnastics when trying to switch tabs while avoiding the damn menu.
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/
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.
Designing an absolutely hostile mobile experience intentionally then displaying a pop up on how much better the experience in their app is (it isn’t) - 99% of apps could be a webpage or a PWA.
Another mobile website annoyance of mine is where common features aren’t present from the desktop version, forcing me to switch to desktop view and try to navigate on a small screen or making me boot up my PC just to perform the simplest task.
Conversely, websites that are missing features from the mobile version or app on the desktop version. I don’t want to do everything on a phone. I want to use my PC. I want to use Linux phone which is a pocketable PC. Screw your stupid app.
