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
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).
It is IIRC. In the eu I think its mandatory that declining cookies is as easy as accepting.
“would you like to receive notifications in your browser from this site?”
No. No I would not.
Chat boxes that popup so that a bot can “help” you find products
Bonus points if it plays audio
Ok god yes, kill it with fire. Any pop-ups that open on the home page of a website actually. Are you trying to get me to immediately leave your site??
On mobile browser: the ad that “loads” under your finger when you tap on something.
Algoritmes that make sure u can’t find a post again when u mis click or something. Facebook/Instagram drive me nuts because of this.
I hate websites that either don’t have a reject all cookies button or they make it suuuuper tiny and put it so close to the big accept button which causes you to accidentally hit accept if you’re on mobile
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,
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 🤦
That popup asking about cookies because they cause cancer in California or whatever. It should auto decline cookies and have a button at the bottom to manually sign over your first born child if you choose to do so.
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
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.
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.
- Overriding the default scroll behavior
- Headers and footers that only appear when you approach them
There are also those headers that auto-hide when you scroll down, but pop back up at the slightest upward scroll, blocking the line at the top of the screen that you were trying to read.
Required Javascript on sites where it doesn’t make sense. I like using a text-only browser like lynx, or netsurf or dillo from time to time, and it’s amazing how some of the simplest webpages are broken without JS.
Not in any special order
- cookie banners
- auto playing anything
- sideways scrolling
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
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!
