“would you like to receive notifications in your browser from this site?”
No. No I would not.
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.
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 🤦
When a website features an (embedded) video at the top and you need to scroll down to read the text unterneath the video:
If not disabled by your browser, the video playback starts. You stop the video. You beginn to scroll down to read the text unter the video, because you don’t want to watch the video. Now the video pops out and begins to play and hovers over the area where the text is displayed.
News websites are prone to this behavior.
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
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.
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?
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??
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
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,
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.
I hate websites that either don’t have a reject all cookies button or they make it suuuuper tiny and put it so close to the big accept button which causes you to accidentally hit accept if you’re on mobile
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)
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.
When you’re on a shopping site and a little pop up appears over the picture of the item telling you how many people have bought it in the last day and how many have viewed it. I don’t care!! Just let me see the actual item!
I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers are made up. Just dark patterns to make it seem like the product is hot.
Though I’ve found it kinda interesting when websites show little messages like “Someone from country just bought item!”.
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.
