• TrenchcoatFullOfBats@belfry.rip
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    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

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    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

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      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).

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        It is IIRC. In the eu I think its mandatory that declining cookies is as easy as accepting.

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          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

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

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

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            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.

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    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 🤦

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      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

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    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,

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      Oh my god I hate twitch for autoplaying some random stream I don’t want to watch on the front page

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

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      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
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      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

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        It’s mostly annoying because there’s no easy way to sidescroll and also, why would you even need to?

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          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.

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    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.

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      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.

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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.

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        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.

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

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

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      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)

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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.