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Great work, I love this.

> slide out hover menus where when you try to hover over a subitem the whole menu disappears

> trying to open an image in google images and the link doesn't have the image

> websites that wants to know my location pop up

> google how to format a USB drive and all the page are 100,000,00 words and subdivided into 60 chapters, including the entire wikipedia entry for what is USB

> login forms with copy/paste disabled

> clicking on a button/link and nothing happens

> apps without a home button, have to keep clicking back until you exit from the app completely by mistake

> autoplay videos that follow you down the page

> password fields without a way to reveal password

> an article, you scroll down and half the article is cut off/blurred out behind a pay/sign up wall.

there is so many more...

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> google how to format a USB drive and all the page are 100,000,00 words and subdivided into 60 chapters, including the entire wikipedia entry for what is USB

This has leaked to virtually all content: "medium rare lamb temperature" will return an infinite number of 10k word essays, titled same as the search query, containing the history of cooking, lamb as food, physics of temperature, lamb recipes and may or may not have the actual information from the title.

And the information likely will be wrong.

Look at five different pages for the same cooking stuff, and all of them will present different cooking times, temperatures, etc...

Yup cooking pages/queries has been guilty of this for some time now and there are enough threads/post on hn to show its a repeating problem.

I cannot phantom that in the great brain/talent pool that is google, that google hasnt figured out that when ppl google lamb cooking temps they dont want a 10k essay !

> recipe sites with select/copy disabled, or worse, sites that modify the copied snippet

> password fields which are not appropriately marked so that autofill / generate secure password does not work

> no sign in button on the homepage, only a sign up button

> you have used up your 5 free articles for the month, please subscribe

> scrolljacking

> with each UI update comes an additional 0.5em of padding / line height

> huge margins / useless sidebars which make it impossible to read the page with the browser window at half-width

> need to use a VPN to access sites in my home country when traveling

> need to use a VPN to get English subtitles on Netflix when traveling

I can get most of these. Greed. Fear. Mistake.

What I don't get is this one:

> autoplay videos that follow you down the page

It is not possible to concentrate on the text if you keep playing a video, possibly with audio track as well, in my field of view.

Why would you ever choose to do that?

And there are even sites that play the same in-house video, on every page, from the top.

> password fields without a way to reveal password

As somebody who has fallen victim to being spied on over an invisible vnc daemon, I hate all password boxes that let you reveal password to be visible. Its like the entire web has forgotten that hackers can easily just sit and watch your screen remotely until you enter a password then BOOM as soon as you reveal the password to check its correct you're compromised.

If someone's managed to install an invisible VNC client, a keylogger isn't much further of a stretch.

Fair point, but IMO passwords are meant to be secret and never revealed. Its a shame revealable password fields became the norm instead of using password managers, which still seems to be quite niche among the non techie world.

> login forms with copy/paste disabled

The post should have a trigger warning.

>No home button

>Crazy menus

This is why on my sites I refuse to use a CMS and just write everything in vim with a single link back to index.html at the top. It's the only way.

> discord or facebook not letting you paste just because you run firefox with strict tracking protection

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