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Comment by peterbmarks | Hacker News Reader

I'm sick of finding traffic lights and trying to decide if the faring around the traffic light counts.

Unfortunately I am with you.

I even decided to close the browser tab when I see any of the following:

  * Full screen "Join our email list".
  * Full screen "Subscribe now".
  * Annoying ReCapthas.
  * The loading takes more than 10 seconds (it's unbelievable how often this happens).
  * Login to see our content you just found on [search engine].

You could argue I miss out by doing so, but this is not how I experience it at all. I just don't want to waste time one such crap. I'm voting with my visit so to speak.

Plug for an old project of mine: https://tabcloseddidntread.com

I like it but I couldn’t help but spot the irony that tumblr is a bad web citizen that breaks the back button so the easiest way to leave the site is to close the tab...

When I put it there it wasn't as bad, but the irony builds up when you add in that I wrote the article about why I'd made TC;DR on Medium, who over the following six months filled every page with this rubbish.

Have you considered Crapcha? https://crapcha.com/

Is there a <vague object name with high number of definitions> in this picture?

I am tried of obviously being asked to help train a system that is dangerously incapable of the task to learn to drive a dangerous vehicle.

I'm pretty sure you're allowed to lie on those, and the computer obviously can't tell either :)

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