• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    10·
    21 hours ago

    So many:

    • Unsubscribe links that are magically broken.
    • Newsletter popups when you’re trying to view content.
    • Websites that are paywalled coming up in search engines.
    • Broken shopping cart payment systems.
    • The fact that it’s an assault on your senses to browse without an adblocker.
    • “Sign in to view content” for articles, posts, etc.
    • Banking sites that time out after a minute.
    • likewise, shopping cart sessions that expire before you’re done shopping.
    • AI generated articles that don’t even sound like they’re referring to the right topic.
    • Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.
    • “Endless scrolling” that prevents you from accessing links at the bottom of the page.
    • Business websites that don’t list an address.
    • “Password must be short enough to guess.”
    • "How did we do? " emails.
    • Automatic newsletter sign-up.
    • Desktop websites that act as if you’re on a phone (i.e swipe through grocery filters instead of scrolling through them).
    • Unreadable, archaic, and/or low-contrast fonts.
    • “This content is not available in your country.”

    I could list dozens more. 😮‍💨

    • Nate@piefed.alphapuggle.devEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Honestly, AI websites that do sound like they’re talking about the right topic are worse. You’ll get halfway through the steps and realize it’s bullshit and wasted your fucking time

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.

      This is a quirk of copyright law. You can’t copyright a recipe unless it’s attached to a story. Because recipes aren’t considered creative works, for some reason. So you’re not copyrighting the recipe; You’re copyrighting the story, which was a creative writing exercise. Basically, without a story attached to it, the recipe is free for anyone to steal and resell in a cookbook or paid site.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
        2·
        16 hours ago

        There’s probably some SEO “hack” involved, too.

        Either way, as a user, it’s infuriating.