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Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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

This. My favorite is when I search for products on a website or app and the results appear in batches, with subsequent results interleaving with the previous results. So when you want to select a particular result and start to move your mouse and click, or move your finger and press, you often end up selecting something unintended because a later result pops into the location.

I do this in the gmail mobile app all the time thanks to their ads injecting themselves in between the emails several seconds late. They must love me, their most engaged ad consumer.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#152
I started an e-commerce brand on a Shopify site. I swore to myself I would never put up one of those stupid things that pops up "Someone bought X product an hour ago!" messages in the corner of the screen.

I ended up trying it. Boosted conversion rate meaningfully. Worth the price I pay in mild self-loathing.

Chesterton's popup, I guess.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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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!

See, there you go thinking being able to use a website is a right

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#154
Yeah. I've written about this a few times, with some suggestions for how to make it marginally less miserable to visit a website:

"Take back your web browser screen space with Kill Sticky" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

"Quick Tips For Making The Internet Suck Less" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th...

"Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-...

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#156

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.

It's important to have the accept cookies button pop up on top of something you are almost guaranteed to click at just the right moment.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#159
post #95

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's t…

Feedback taken. Will ask ai agents to make improvements.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

#160

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.

Yes, and put a search bar that loses focus to some piece of crap I dont care about after I enter 3 characters, and some hotkeys that navigate me to a different page when I accidentally activate them because I thought I was going to put text in the search field.

youtube people I know you are in here. Fix your stupid PIP thing.

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