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albert_e ◴[] No.42600082[source]
They did not mention --

Text littered with hyperlinks on every sentence. Hyperlinks that do on-hover gimmicks like load previews or charts. Emojis or other distracting graphics (like stock ticker symbols and price indicators GOOG +7%) littered among the text.

Backgrounds and images that change with scrolling.

Popups asking to allow the website to send you notifications.

Page footers that are two pages high with 200 links.

Fine print and copyright legalese.

Cookie policy banners that have multiple confusing options and list of 1000 affiliate third parties.

Traditional banner and text ads.

Many other dark patterns.

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1. rchaud ◴[] No.42601723[source]
> Text littered with hyperlinks on every sentence.

This is the biggest hassle associated with reading articles online. I'm never going to click on those links because:

- the linked anchor text says nothing about the website it's linking to - the link shows a 404 (common with articles 2+ years old) - the link is probably paywalled

Very annoying that article writing guidelines are unchanges from the 2000s where linkrot and paywalls were almost unheard of.