I happened to click a link that took me to the associated twitter X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it’s nothing new. I’ve got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What’s the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you’ve encountered recently?

  • eronth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • polle@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ublock, doesnt block the google login, th cookiebanner and the shitty login question of twitter itself. I looks exactly like that with ublock.

      • eronth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m not on Twitter so I haven’t tried cleaning it up, but it’s super easy to select additional elements to block, I do it all the time to clean visuals rather than block ads.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      My guess is they’re all built by different teams that didn’t reuse any of the code written by the other teams. Ideally you’re supposed to have a design system with standards for this, but I think all the good developers left (or were fired from) Twitter when Musk took over.

    • StrangeQuark@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been saying the same for tv commercials. I’ve always hated them but they were built into the episodes, now they jump scare mid sentence and come back to another speaking.

      I sail quite often but the wife likes the convenience, so.

      It all sucks and getting suckier!

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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…

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      How will Daily Mirror remember I paid if they are not storing any cookies for me as they promise? Also,asking to pay just for valuing your privacy, I don’t assume this payment will lead to removal of ads or any more exclusive benefits.

  • eddy_bola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yup, I’m in exactly the same boat. I just got a new phone and decided to not install any banking apps whatsoever. I got a check in the mail, and instead of giving in and installing the app, I just drove a mile to an ATM. NBD, and I don’t have to see endless nags about banking features, credit scores, etc.

      I’m not part of your system… MAN!, but actually serious.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I have found that local banks like credit unions, and such, seem to have nicer mobile apps from my experience.

        I have worked as a software engineer for a smaller bank like this, and the development was a lot more honest. These kind of banks normally just want a pleasant user experience for their customers, unlike bigger banks that want to deploy all sorts of dark patterns to collect user data and sell extra stuff to their customers.

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      At least you can force desktop mode on most sites. No mobiles apps, desktop mode on phone. Usually.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m headed in that direction.

      • Minimal apps on my phone, most of them foss apps to access my self hosted services
      • Raspberry pi 4 running osmc connected to our TV. TV itself has no internet connection
      • Want to move to graphene os, but riding this iphone 12 mini until it dies
      • Linux on my server and my primary computer. Have an M1 Mac Mini that my wife primarily uses (too many papercuts for her with asahi linux. We tried and switched back), and iPadOS on the iPad Pro that I have that I’m also riding until it dies.
  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I really really do miss old school internet and feel kinda bad for people who never get to experience it. I know i sound like a cunt, and maybe it’s just nostalgia, but when the internet was bound to a computer and it was mainly “nerds” using it, it was such a better time. I remember a time where the internet was fast enough for pictures and small videos, but having your own picture somehow on the internet was witchcraft to me. Scanner, cameras who are digital whaaat? Now most of the internet is ads and pictures of people who i don’t give a shit about. People’s opinion, picture of people, fuck off bring back the time where the internet was either forums or someone’s weird website, where you only stumbled upon because you typed in a web adress i. The hopes it leads you somewhere.

      I had a girlfriend who was truly fascinated by the fact that i don’t have social media and that i’m not “on the internet” like she didn’t find me and my stupid face anywhere on the web. She was often wondering what i was doing on the internet if i don’t have social media, because that was the internet to her. Facebook, instagram, tiktok and youtube.

      • lorty@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Whenever I get to a webpage that looks a decade old (like most recently Ventoy) I get hit with a wave of nostalgia. Yeah, it might not look great or be very responsive to my actions, but my god does it feel great to just get thebinfo you need front and center.

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        She was often wondering what i was doing on the internet if i don’t have social media, because that was the internet to her

        ~ shudders ~

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There was a screenshot I once saw of a Chinese netizen’s web browser in the late-2000’s, using Internet Explorer 6 and tonnes of third-party toolbars. I think I saw it back when Digg was still a thing. We’ve now reached the age where major websites are more cluttered with notifications than a malware-infected browser was 15 years ago, and where everybody is tracking everything that you do online.

      25 years ago, we legitimately drove RealNetworks into the ground for a lot less than what we’re allowing Google, Microsoft, Meta, X, etc to get away in the modern day.

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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…