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I have a very hard time believing that these companies are unaware of how auful this shit makes their webpages.

GIVE US YOUR DATA GIVE US YOUR DATA GIVE US YOUR DATA

I will say that the Google Auth prompt in particular is just this huge nuisance and a horrible experience. People should feel stupid for including it in their web experience.

If this was your webpage 15 years ago, you'd be almost certain that you'd been infected with malware.

EU: "You can't just collect people's data, you have to ask permission first and give people the opportunity to decline."

Site Developers: "Fine, but we're going to comply in the most malicious manner possible."

HEY DO YOU WANT COOKIES ARE YOU SURE PLEASE HIT THE BIG BLUE BUTTON FOR COOKIES THEY ARE HELPFUL AND GOOD PLEASE GIVE COOKIES!!!!!

That screenshot looks like the old screenshots from the early browser wars with 20 toolbars stacked.

Visiting the corpse of Twitter was your first mistake

We can sell 80 percent of the screen without inducing seizures!

The different popups just show how bad design the web is today.

Ask cookie question is required.

Login? Always create an account and proceed with all signup questions.

Agreement? Read them 1 hour until you have understood everything.

Webbrowser: can I get your location? And please the mic and video too!

Finally, don't forget the ads!

This kind of thing getting worse and worse at all levels of tech is increasingly pushing me to the fringes of tech solutions (with all of the handicaps that come with that) as those are getting to be the only places where this kind of thing is not pervasive.

• No apps on phone, if the mobile site doesn't work it can wait until I am in front of a desktop/laptop
• No NFC payments as that requires the phone to be blessed by lord Google or father Apple
• No set top streaming boxes on the TV, just a small Linux powered PC and a cheap Logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad
• Only Linux OSes on desktop/laptop

It took long enough but the pop-ups evolved into new pop-ups.

Did someone say... cookies?

I can just tell that whenever Twitter's user interface has weak attempts at humour, it was put there during the previous ownership, and that just makes me sad.

Like when you delete your account the final message says "#Goodbye", I was tearing up, thinking, like, shit, Musk really fucked everything up, did he?

Anybody know why google has a popup on every major website now? And more importantly, how to get rid of that without creating an account?

It's kind of bothersome how almost blind I am to them now. I habitually find a way to close them without having to read or focus my eyes on anything. That's not to say it isn't still an annoyance.

The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

It's just shows how they're just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.

I LOATHE that fucking google sign in overlay.

Then companies like..."dont use adblock"

A porn site a friend of mine sometimes visits pops up a "sign in with Google" banner when you visit without annoyance blocker, and a "like this on Facebook" when you open a video.

web 1.0 wasn't flashy but it got the point across. bring it back.

xcancel.com ftw

The corporates keep finding ways to reintroduce the same shitty popup ads from the 90s to defeat whatever's been put in place to keep it from happening. Absolutely no sense of nuance. It's not the specific delivery mechanism users dislike, it's the whole terrible UX pattern. Stop trying to make me do shit that's not what I'm trying to do!

X gon give it to ya

Gemini is an attempt at trying to bring the old web back, although with some technical limitations.

https://xcancel.com/HexOS_Official

This is the digital equivalent of walking through an open air market and having salespeople harass and follow you trying to sell something

Never thought I'd miss frames. Though really, I always wondered exactly why they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?

try opening fanwiki in a phone

Hahaha I had the exact same reaction and made an almost identical screenshot of this eyecancer…

I set 2 different people up with revanced over the weekend. I thought I'd typed in the wrong URL because I'm on Firefox mobile and both of them are on Chrome mobile. Literally looks like an entirely different site. On Chrome it's got a big fancy logo at the top, ads....fucking....everywhere...
On Firefox(with various blockers and anti trackers etc etc) it's a plain white page with a bold title and small blurb then links to the various apks. Took me a minute to even figure out where the link for the manager was.....

Just gotta love what Elon did with the place. Not that it was great before, but now it looks and feels like a seedy Thai hooker palace

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Google and YouTube are pretty fucking bad without an ad-blocker installed. From someone who has worked in jobs where I may as well have called myself a 'Professional Googler' and where I do not have permissions to install an ad-blocker on my work computer, the amount of ads I get buried with really sours the experience.

Also, a lot of news sites (particularly anything owned by Reach PLC such as the Mirror) are now flipping the middle-finger at GDPR by forcing users to pay to reject tracking cookies. Here's a screengrab from the Daily Mirror website...

I just set all the twitter and meta domains to localhost in my hosts file; no accidental clicks that go through for me :)

I've become quite picky about what sites I visit because of this, and it's why I don't like opening links. I know you can block this crap, but it's seldom worth the effort.

This is something I like to use ublock origin for. Like, blocking ads is nice, but I also love just clearing out clutter from websites.

Tax all captured data @40 dollars per field per year. First name, 40 bucks, last name 40 bucks, etc.

Reminds me of screenshots of internet explorer with 20 search bar addons from the 2000s 🤣

Could you please give ne the names of these plugins that you use?

instagram's login pop-ups will appear if you have seen like 12 posts of a user. that's really annoying. if you are on mobile and open instagram on the browser and then log in, instagram still asks you to log in. how weird!

This image needs 3 shopping hotbars at the top.

*xitter

It's actually a pretty tasty coffee.

What the fuck is this post? fuck off back to your X/fagbook retard.