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Ask HN: Who else is tired of these web things?

14 points by mring33621 ↗ HN
1) cookie pop-ups

2) chat pop-ups

3) sign-up for a discount pop-ups

I just got to your site! Let me have a minute to look around before you bug me!

18 comments

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JohnFen
The web has become borderline intolerable, and these things are among the reasons why. I've developed a "zero tolerance" habit. If a website throws up a surprise popup, I just immediately close the page and never go back. The only way to win is not to play.
drweevil
Word. "We've noticed you have an ad blocker. Please disable to..." or "you need JavaScript enabled to..." Nope, wouldn't be prudent. Not doin' it.
LinuxBender
Similar here but I take it a step further and drop their domains in ublock My Filters just in case I forget or some headline is just too tempting to click.

    ||theatlantic.com^
    ||techdirt.com^
    ||squarespace.com^
    ||politicopro.com^
etc...
stop50
Since i use firefox with these addons:

1. Ublock origin

2. Cookieblock with an additional list that fixed some misscategorization

3. Consent-o-matic

No

cdaringe
“Have you tried our native app? Please please please download our stupid app PLLLEEEEASE?!?!!??!”
dormento
Reddit web nags are famous around here. "It has cats on it".

Not only I won't install the app, I'll keep using old.reddit.com (might as well be called actually-useful.reddit.com...)

cdaringe
The subdomain resolves! …and sends you to new reddit
ATechGuy
That's exactly why I've built a tool using LLMs that filters out this garbage before showing me the content.
wruza
I always go to ublock origin settings and load all “annoyances” lists which are off by default. Idk how much that helps, but worth trying I guess.
solardev
If you use uBlock with the annoyances filters enabled, the majority of those go away. I very rarely see them.
zzo38computer
I generally disable JavaScripts, and I disable many other things as well, so many of these things are not displayed on my computer anyways.
yogini
I have noticed in general people don't like pop-ups or modals, at least during the first-mile experience of the product.
FergusArgyll
Learn to use element zapper mode in ublock, I bound it to a shortcut, it's a lifesaver...
vednig
web was nice, when the only CSS was background and text colors
meristohm
I click the reader mode button in Firefox, and if it doesn't render as simplly text with some images (sometimes it's just a stub, for example), then I bail.