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!”.
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.
Forgetting your place after logging in or switching between mobile and desktop modes.
Not in any special order
- cookie banners
- auto playing anything
- sideways scrolling
- 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
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?
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.
Unskippable tutorials.
When the site hijacks the scroll to play some animation as you scroll down the page
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 >.<
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.
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. Anything that pops up in front of the content I want to see, can fuck off!
Cookies policy
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Chat boxes that popup so that a bot can “help” you find products
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”.
Bonus points if it plays audio
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.
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
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
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).
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.
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.
Protip: Use a VPN and connect to an EU country. You’ll see more of the single “Reject All” buttons.
When it has an overlay video that fills up to half the screen even if you scroll. And the X button is not even being shown.
For stuff like that, I always use this bookmarklet which instantly zaps any sticky elements.
