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.
I fucking hate this.
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 >.<
Agreed. Anything that pops up in front of the content I want to see, can fuck off!
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 🤦
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.
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.
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,
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.
Sometimes I wonder why they even designed a mobile website in the first place if they don’t want people to use it.
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.
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?
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)
When the site hijacks the scroll to play some animation as you scroll down the page
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.
Autoplay while scrolling.
Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…
Being 100x the size and ‘modern feel’ with 1x the content than we used to have
Unskippable tutorials.
Required Javascript on sites where it doesn’t make sense. I like using a text-only browser like lynx, or netsurf or dillo from time to time, and it’s amazing how some of the simplest webpages are broken without JS.
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/
