I happened to click a link that took me to the associated twitter X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.
I know it’s nothing new. I’ve got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)
What’s the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you’ve encountered recently?
Reminds me of screenshots of internet explorer with 20 search bar addons from the 2000s 🤣
xcancel.com ftw
deleted by creator
One of the few surviving nitter instances
Cancel X period brbgoatftw
The web. It was good while it lasted.
robots.txt is the perfect summary of the web era. A plain text file that politely asked web crawlers not to do certain things. Such an innocent time.
This is the digital equivalent of walking through an open air market and having salespeople harass and follow you trying to sell something
The rare Gigachad double top level comment. Well played sir.
I will say that the Google Auth prompt in particular is just this huge nuisance and a horrible experience. People should feel stupid for including it in their web experience.
Wait, people choose to put it in their website??
Yes. How else would it get there?
I don’t know, but I also don’t know why would anyone willingly choose this UX for their website.
Writing sign-in and authentication can be difficult. Google handles it for you. They’ll also store all of the secret stuff that you don’t want to leak, like passwords, etc. So I can see some of the appeal for sites of a certain size, but not really Twitter.
I can understand that, and a user can also enjoy the simplicity of the process. However, I’m speaking about this very popup here. It doesn’t have to be this way. There are plenty of websites that allow you to sign in/up with Google (or another 3rd-party provider) that don’t have this problem. I see so many websites and mobile apps that make it very difficult to use them. I always wonder if anyone at the company is using their own website/app. Reddit is another great example.
Given how intrusive google is, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was kinda forced by them along with some other functionality
But it acts as a Login for the page instead of registering a new account? How would Google do that without the page owners permission?!
Honestly, I didn’t even know what it does until now. I get so annoyed by it that I just close it immediately after it pops up. Probably time to make a uBlock Origin filter for it I guess
It’s not. It is up to the owner to code it into their website or not.
Wait, how can I get rid of google auth pop-ups? I got Ublock but they still come up whenever I go to a reddit page.
Thanks man, the ublock filter in the first link works like a charm :-)
I just set all the twitter and meta domains to localhost in my hosts file; no accidental clicks that go through for me :)
instagram’s login pop-ups will appear if you have seen like 12 posts of a user. that’s really annoying. if you are on mobile and open instagram on the browser and then log in, instagram still asks you to log in. how weird!
I don’t have Instagram and when friends send links from it I don’t even try anymore.
Pro tip: you can turn the link into ddinstagram to embed on services like Discord and other ones with embeds. This way you don’t have to visit the site
That is a protip, thanks
This image needs 3 shopping hotbars at the top.
GIVE US YOUR DATA GIVE US YOUR DATA GIVE US YOUR DATA
PLEASE HERE TAKE IT
(Just please stop yelling at me)
A porn site a friend of mine sometimes visits pops up a “sign in with Google” banner when you visit without annoyance blocker, and a “like this on Facebook” when you open a video.
Dont be a pussy, do it!
Found Ted Cruz’s fediverse account?
oops, forgot to sign out of the church account. This will be a learning opportunity!
Never thought I’d miss frames. Though really, I always why exactly why they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?
I imagine coding frames so that they worked well on both desktop and mobile would be a major pain in the ass.
They died well before mobile formatting was a concern. I suppose other aspect ratios were getting more popular then. That and the security issues the other poster mentioned probably contributed.
Security nightmare as well
X gon give it to ya
I LOATHE that fucking google sign in overlay.
Omg fuck that thing so hard I hate it
Hey you want to read this article why don’t you sign into Google? Why I can already see it
try opening fanwiki in a phone
For minecraft players: Remember to only open minecraft.wiki links
Oh yeah, these unrelated autoplay videos are a great pleasure to stop and hide when scrolling. Waste of internet traffic.
This is why I avoid Fandom any way I can, largely using this browser extension. https://getindie.wiki/
Could you please give ne the names of these plugins that you use?
uBlock with “Cookie Notices” and “Annoyances” ticked on. Filter lists tab.
