Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

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569 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 05 Jan 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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albert_e ◴[05 Jan 25 06:06 UTC] 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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lelanthran ◴[05 Jan 25 06:40 UTC] No.42600185[source]▶

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> Hyperlinks that do on-hover gimmicks like load previews or charts.

I haven't seen one that shows charts, but I gotta admit, I miss the hover preview when not reading wikipedia.

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1. mystified5016 ◴[06 Jan 25 16:02 UTC] No.42611659[source]▶

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It can be done tastefully. I think this commenter is talking about the brief period where it was fashionable to install plugins or code on your site that mindlessly slaps "helpful" tooltips on random strings. I always assumed it was some AdSense program or SEO that gave you some revinue or good boy Google points for the number of external links on a page.

In the modern day we've come full circle. Jira uses AI to scan your tickets for non-English strings of letters and hallucinates a definition for the acronym it thinks it means, complete with a bogus "reference" to one of your documents that doesn't mention the subject. They also have RAINBOW underlines so it's impossible to ignore.

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