What elements of websites annoy you the most? I'm thinking of 'accept cookies' prompts, etc. Especially interested in specific examples, but also general patterns. Working on something simple to block them all.
Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?
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#2Forcing the mobile version when browsing on a cell phone. I may be in the minority here, but I prefer having the full site available. If I wanted the mobile version by default I would just use an app.
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#3PWAs. If I wanted an app, I would be on the store and not in the browser.
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#4- Nags to install apps on mobile (ex: opening reddit on mobile)
- Videos autoplaying on some news sites
- Cookie prompts
- And the worst: overlays that appear on scrolling
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#5Everything that is not the content I came for
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#6Asking me to install the app on every page after I have said no. I deliberately avoid reddit links on my phone now.
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#7Distractions. I am text-oriented and easily distracted,
so any auto-playing animation, video, audio, pop-out,
or basically anything that moves on the display and
causes distraction annoys me.
Static images and graphics are fine, and user-triggered movement is fine, but the all-dancing, all-singing, in-your-face sites can please take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut.
TBH, I even find distracting text annoying - Stack Overflow's "Hot Network Questions" is a good example. I'm looking at the details of how to parse version N of format X, and it is not at all helpful when my eye catches: "If a dwarf barbarian wears heavy armor how fast do they move?" (actual HNQ question, no offense intended to the querent, dwarves, barbarians, etc.)
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#81. Quora paywall
2. Reddit install app nag
3. Paywalls on media/news sites
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#9Splash dialogs asking me for my email address, or to sign up on a site where I've just come to read one article.
Having to dismiss something is an utter pain.
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#10- When companies put fake graphics on their websites. E.g. the typical small startup who puts corporate/big business graphics in their main web site, rather than real pictures of themselves/their office. Pathetic.
- Asking for registration/login, just to get spammed later with annoying newsletter bullshit.
- Everything else others said already.