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?

  • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Did someone say… cookies?

    I can just tell that whenever Twitter’s user interface has weak attempts at humour, it was put there during the previous ownership, and that just makes me sad.

    Like when you delete your account the final message says “#Goodbye”, I was tearing up, thinking, like, shit, Musk really fucked everything up, did he?

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Musk really fucked everything up, did he?

      Other than no longer being able to use an app to access twitter, I haven’t noticed anything else changing for the worse. They even made the “media” tab into grid rather than list which was a welcome update.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        How about just the userbase? I’d say that changed for the worse. A lot worse. And if you don’t think so, I hope you enjoy yelling about Jews at your next khakis and tiki torches march.

  • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Reminds me of screenshots of internet explorer with 20 search bar addons from the 2000s 🤣

  • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That screenshot looks like the old screenshots from the early browser wars with 20 toolbars stacked.

  • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

    It’s just shows how they’re just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

      My guess is they’re all built by different teams that didn’t reuse any of the code written by the other teams. Ideally you’re supposed to have a design system with standards for this, but I think all the good developers left (or were fired from) Twitter when Musk took over.

    • StrangeQuark@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve been saying the same for tv commercials. I’ve always hated them but they were built into the episodes, now they jump scare mid sentence and come back to another speaking.

      I sail quite often but the wife likes the convenience, so.

      It all sucks and getting suckier!

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Never thought I’d miss frames. Though really, I always why exactly why they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I imagine coding frames so that they worked well on both desktop and mobile would be a major pain in the ass.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This kind of thing getting worse and worse at all levels of tech is increasingly pushing me to the fringes of tech solutions (with all of the handicaps that come with that) as those are getting to be the only places where this kind of thing is not pervasive.

    • No apps on phone, if the mobile site doesn’t work it can wait until I am in front of a desktop/laptop
    • No NFC payments as that requires the phone to be blessed by lord Google or father Apple
    • No set top streaming boxes on the TV, just a small Linux powered PC and a cheap Logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad
    • Only Linux OSes on desktop/laptop
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yup, I’m in exactly the same boat. I just got a new phone and decided to not install any banking apps whatsoever. I got a check in the mail, and instead of giving in and installing the app, I just drove a mile to an ATM. NBD, and I don’t have to see endless nags about banking features, credit scores, etc.

      I’m not part of your system… MAN!, but actually serious.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I have found that local banks like credit unions, and such, seem to have nicer mobile apps from my experience.

        I have worked as a software engineer for a smaller bank like this, and the development was a lot more honest. These kind of banks normally just want a pleasant user experience for their customers, unlike bigger banks that want to deploy all sorts of dark patterns to collect user data and sell extra stuff to their customers.

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      At least you can force desktop mode on most sites. No mobiles apps, desktop mode on phone. Usually.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m headed in that direction.

      • Minimal apps on my phone, most of them foss apps to access my self hosted services
      • Raspberry pi 4 running osmc connected to our TV. TV itself has no internet connection
      • Want to move to graphene os, but riding this iphone 12 mini until it dies
      • Linux on my server and my primary computer. Have an M1 Mac Mini that my wife primarily uses (too many papercuts for her with asahi linux. We tried and switched back), and iPadOS on the iPad Pro that I have that I’m also riding until it dies.
  • eddy_bola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hahaha I had the exact same reaction and made an almost identical screenshot of this eyecancer…

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Google and YouTube are pretty fucking bad without an ad-blocker installed. From someone who has worked in jobs where I may as well have called myself a ‘Professional Googler’ and where I do not have permissions to install an ad-blocker on my work computer, the amount of ads I get buried with really sours the experience.

    Also, a lot of news sites (particularly anything owned by Reach PLC such as the Mirror) are now flipping the middle-finger at GDPR by forcing users to pay to reject tracking cookies. Here’s a screengrab from the Daily Mirror website…

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I set 2 different people up with revanced over the weekend. I thought I’d typed in the wrong URL because I’m on Firefox mobile and both of them are on Chrome mobile. Literally looks like an entirely different site. On Chrome it’s got a big fancy logo at the top, ads…fucking…everywhere…
    On Firefox(with various blockers and anti trackers etc etc) it’s a plain white page with a bold title and small blurb then links to the various apks. Took me a minute to even figure out where the link for the manager was…