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Note to the author of this article: whatever your site is doing to make my browser's title bar keep switching its text every second, please make it stop. I stopped reading and closed the tab because it was so annoying.

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For me, the "instant back button" moment was the little pop-up at the bottom of the screen that played a loud chime sound. I don't care if the article contains the cure for cancer -- the moment you get in my face like that I'm gone and not coming back.

> For me, the "instant back button" moment was the little pop-up at the bottom of the screen that played a loud chime sound.

I normally have my sound muted, precisely to avoid such nuisances. But this site shows why even that strategy is not always enough.

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