Calling all devs to list all things which annoys the fuck out of the internetsurfing experience. I remember the days when the internet was fresh and every website was just static and weird. Geocities anyone?

Here are my two cents:
- dsvgo cookie popups
- autologouts after X min. Even while writing a message in their contactfield
- need for an account for everything
- docs and invoices to be downloaded in their customer portal instead via send to email or automate that shit somehow
- spam
- ads and adword websites
- lots more

- Forgot password → Can't use the previous password

- Every X time you need a new password

- Forced to use (app) 2FA

- You search for X, but the search engine goes "well, you actually want Y"

- Asking for phone numbers

- Blocking temp mails

- Probably more

Once the internet got big enough, it naturally became the focus of profit oriented folks and that has ruined it for all of us.

The other problem is that somehow we couldn‘t get past the static shit and after decades of trying and failing we gave up and just started to rape the static stuff and force it to be dynamic with horrible unholy methods.

People who do stuff to stop you using a password manager, whether intentionally or by stupidity.

Sites that deliberately don't work on mobile, to force you to install some head-up-your-arse app.

Loading 10MB of excrement in the background, and doing so gradually over a long period of time, with bits of the layout moving every time another piece of excrement is loaded.

Wordpress.

Links that aren't links so you can't open them in a new tab.

Everything having to be a sodding video.

Anything Zuckerberg has poked his weird creepy hairdo into.

copying text off a website and it either doesn't work or they insert a link to the webpage where you copied it from. I feel violated

@jestdotty That, or they disable highlighting and the right click menu

Another one, putting an image behind an invisible div

Can I share your idea?

ads

multi-language websites that don't store the preferred language of the visitor

popups (cookies, login, ads, ...)

captcha

ads

payment walls

fake chats

custom scrollbars

ugly buttons

the absolute need for ad blockers

slow response time

AI-generated content

multi-page articles

ads

target="_blank" on every link

no text contrast

exotic fonts

Google

ads

Bing

autoplay / animated GIFs / other moving stuff

forced account creation

socials integration

suck color schemes

Did I mention ads?

In short: corporate amateurism

I feel ya.

But at the same time I feel that many of these crappy changes were inevitable consequences of how the internet took over everything and forced businesses to go online.

In the Early Days of the Web you could have a free, ad-free magazine website. Cause they made their money from paper subscriptions and paper ads.

As the web became the primary source of income - they had to start using web ads and paywalls.

One of the most maddening things to me is american recipe websites - compared to swedish recipe websites

In sweden a recipe website content is just just 1. headline 2. ingredients 2. how to make it

In the US it's

1. the history of the stove top

2. four pages of facts about lime juice

3. - click to scroll down to the ingredients list-

3. twelve variations of this recipe

4. my family's ratings of this recipe

5. interesting thoughts

6. ingredients

7. history of cinnamon and the spice trade

8. how to cook

For example https://loveandlemons.com/paloma/

I know "they do it to make you scroll through as many ads as possible" but what's interesting is that swedish sites never do this, it's just sites in english

@jiraTicket It's also so that google has more words to match against when crawling. Gotta get that SEO juice

Can I help you?

@BordedDev But arguably it's not like these US recipe sites are clearly more SEO-optimized than the swedish recipe sites. What I've heard from SEO-experts - even when asking what would be the most evil way to hack SEO optimization - they have said that stuffing articles full of semi-relevant content would NOT be the way to go.

I wonder if it's the result of different SEO culture assumptions, where the US companies have consulted SEO firms that DO advocate that word-stuffing approach, while swedish SEO-firms don't.. even if it's unclear what's optimal.

@jiraTicket That's what I've heard as well, but that's why it's a full article. Rather than just term spam, + probably old advice from yesteryear

Just found out that you cant copy the text in your comments here in devrant app on android. Why? I would lime to archive the list of problems we accumulated.

@noyb What I've heard from the app-team that I work next to is that many app-platforms simply don't have any native feature for text-selection.

There simply is no such feature at all in the app context, so app developers are forced to build a custom implementation (Which some never end up doing)

Many news apps have implemented a Copy-feature where if you longpress to start selecting text (as you would in a mobile browser) you will just get a popover saying "Copy" which allows you to copy that one paragraph.

Unlike the web (or any Note-taking-app) where longpressing a piece of text would enter text-selection-mode where you can drag the textSelection-area freely.