As far as noscript, I used a locked down Firefox for a while but it broke sites so often it was essentially useless. I had to disable all the security just to view pages.
@tweezak I find myself having to disable the Shields on about 75% of the merch-sales sites I visit, though. The pages just will not load, or the cart hangs and won’t complete the process, with them up. And Home Depot, WalMart, eBay and several others just hang mercilessly with Brave, even with the shields down.
@xobzoo Sad, but true! I’ve even gotten used to the pages that bounce around & load erratically in an effort to get you to accidentally click on something, although once in awhile the bastards get me! I then boycott any company that has anything to do with tactics like that, out of principle!
I can’t decide between videos and pop-ups; I hate them pretty equally. Why does every article have to have a video? And if you happen to watch one voluntarily, you set in motion a conveyor belt of videos that may or may not be related, and which you have little control over.
Actively? I use a whole array of ad blockers, popup blockers, autoplay disablers, and spam filters so that I can passively ignore the stuff. I also ignore a ton of internet drama by getting my news from actual news sites and not having social media accounts. I don’t have cable, so stream TV programs minus the ads. On news sites, I still get that annoying video window that tries to follow me down the page even though the videos don’t autoplay. I’ve trained my “mouse control” brain cells to just click on the little X to close the window without fanfare, but the necessity of doing that repeatedly still irritates me a tiny bit.
Much of the above, PLUS pop-up boxes that appear in the middle of my filling in a search box, asking me to allow the afore-mentioned location request or even worse asking me to take a survey at the end of my “experience” on their site.
This interrupts my train of thought, screws up the search box, and then I usually have to clear it and start over. (No further comment here on how lame the search function is on most commercial sites.)
When asked to take a survey, unless strapped for time, I usually agree and try to rake the site over the coals for the rude interruption – though I’m sure the responsible people who no doubt slept through their math, logic, and English classes and became marketers anyway just ignore my comments, but the venting lowers my blood pressure a might.
Do web developers no longer take any kind of UX training?
@phendrick Decisions to implement stupid things like that generally come down to the developer from above, and don’t occur as a suggestion from below about a neat feature that it would be really easy to add to the website.
ACTIVELY ignore? I guess that would have to be any ad that makes noise. I actively close that tab with extreme prejudice and never return to that site.
The rest I pretty much passively ignore.
All of the above
@cengland0 This! Just let me browse peacefully and anonymously.
@cengland0 @hchavers Amen!!
Advertising
Polls
Trolls…
@clonetek @shahnm Hey, I think I saw that movie with Steve Martin and John Candy:
Polls, Trolls and Auto-play Spiels
Battery refrigeration deniers.
@shahnm
/giphy bronx cheer
NoScript is magical.
Tracking, targeted ads, ads at all, pop ups, Twitter/Facebook/instagram/TikTok.
If you want to free yourself of ads and sites that track you all in one shot:
Brave Browser. brave.com
Yes, even YouTube ads are eliminated.
Thank me later.
As far as noscript, I used a locked down Firefox for a while but it broke sites so often it was essentially useless. I had to disable all the security just to view pages.
@tweezak I’ve heard Pi-Hole is also good
@tweezak I find myself having to disable the Shields on about 75% of the merch-sales sites I visit, though. The pages just will not load, or the cart hangs and won’t complete the process, with them up. And Home Depot, WalMart, eBay and several others just hang mercilessly with Brave, even with the shields down.
But it’s brilliant on YouTube.
Sites that want to push notifications or want to know my location
@ironcheftoni #1 answer IMO.
I don’t know. I’ve become so adept at ignoring them that I don’t even notice it any more.
@xobzoo Sad, but true! I’ve even gotten used to the pages that bounce around & load erratically in an effort to get you to accidentally click on something, although once in awhile the bastards get me! I then boycott any company that has anything to do with tactics like that, out of principle!
@xobzoo Not seeing them is even better than ignoring them.
Anything that wants me to “subscribe.”
“Download the app” = “we know our site sucks ass and no, we won’t fix it”
@brennyn what if their app sucks too? Why I don’t eat at Boston Market anymore.
Our website uses cookies notifications. Yes, thanks EU for making us all check that a million times.
I can’t decide between videos and pop-ups; I hate them pretty equally. Why does every article have to have a video? And if you happen to watch one voluntarily, you set in motion a conveyor belt of videos that may or may not be related, and which you have little control over.
Actively? I use a whole array of ad blockers, popup blockers, autoplay disablers, and spam filters so that I can passively ignore the stuff. I also ignore a ton of internet drama by getting my news from actual news sites and not having social media accounts. I don’t have cable, so stream TV programs minus the ads. On news sites, I still get that annoying video window that tries to follow me down the page even though the videos don’t autoplay. I’ve trained my “mouse control” brain cells to just click on the little X to close the window without fanfare, but the necessity of doing that repeatedly still irritates me a tiny bit.
Ublock Origin does a wonderful job of killing most of that crap.
I was using the Web before ads existed, I see no reason to change that.
I’ve yet to think up a suitable curse/damnation/hell/fate for the guy that thought up autoplay videos, but I’m open to suggestions.
@blaineg Maybe strapped to a chair in front of a computer with multiple windows open, all running his autoplay software.
And he can keep company with the person at Paramount Plus who added a setting to halt the autoplay but lets some videos bypass it.
@blaineg @rockblossom
Much of the above, PLUS pop-up boxes that appear in the middle of my filling in a search box, asking me to allow the afore-mentioned location request or even worse asking me to take a survey at the end of my “experience” on their site.
This interrupts my train of thought, screws up the search box, and then I usually have to clear it and start over. (No further comment here on how lame the search function is on most commercial sites.)
When asked to take a survey, unless strapped for time, I usually agree and try to rake the site over the coals for the rude interruption – though I’m sure the responsible people who no doubt slept through their math, logic, and English classes and became marketers anyway just ignore my comments, but the venting lowers my blood pressure a might.
Do web developers no longer take any kind of UX training?
@phendrick Decisions to implement stupid things like that generally come down to the developer from above, and don’t occur as a suggestion from below about a neat feature that it would be really easy to add to the website.
All of the above
Amazon’s
searchspam function. Their misfeature is so bad that I use Google to search for things on Amazon when I can’t find them anywhere else.ACTIVELY ignore? I guess that would have to be any ad that makes noise. I actively close that tab with extreme prejudice and never return to that site.
The rest I pretty much passively ignore.
2 Girls 1 Cup.
“Please disable your adblocker to use our site.”
Nope.