Live data from Hacker News

Every Fucking Website (2020)

lxe.github.io

101–110 of 529 posts

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#101

Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.

All buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.

..... In such a way that most commonly used button is replaced by an ad 0.001 seconds before you click it

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#102
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others. I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.

You could have a 'no cookies' badge that links to your cookie policy - 'we use no tracking cookies and so are compliant with EU law ... then list any cookies/local-storage used and explain what they're for.

That would make you sound a lot more professional too. And trustworthy. (As long as that's actually what happens).

When I see these dialogs listing they have 1289723 gazillion vendors they share data with, I know that whoever is in charge of analytics, privacy or both at the company is incompetent.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#103
post #12

So many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!

But you could obviously be doing it faster/smarter by using Gemini /s

If they make it hard enough to interact with the actual website, we'll have to use AI!

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#106

That "In case you're not aware, there's COVID-19 happening" banner isn't nearly tall nor yellow enough. Given a 6-inch-tall screen, the proper layout would be: +-----------------+ |2" of vestigial | |COVID messaging | +-----------------+ |1.5" of actual | | content | +-----------------+ |2.5 of EU | | cookie banner | +-----------------+ A local utility took it even further during COVID: +---------------------+ |2" of…

It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.

manually scrolling before every widget loads should cause a full page refresh.

zooming in should cause a full page refresh

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#108
post #20

Because it works (AIUI "I agree" gets people to give explicit consent with good success and the subscribe modals are quite effective too)

There was a piece of caselaw about a company having an "agree" but a million tick-boxes to disagree. A lot of sites added a "disagree" button then.
Post reply on HN