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

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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!

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.

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.

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...

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.

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

If you use uBlock with the annoyances filters enabled, the majority of those go away. I very rarely see them.

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.

Since i use firefox with these addons:

1. Ublock origin

2. Cookieblock with an additional list that fixed some misscategorization

3. Consent-o-matic

I generally disable JavaScripts, and I disable many other things as well, so many of these things are not displayed on my computer anyways.

I have noticed in general people don't like pop-ups or modals, at least during the first-mile experience of the product.

That's exactly why I've built a tool using LLMs that filters out this garbage before showing me the content.

Learn to use element zapper mode in ublock, I bound it to a shortcut, it's a lifesaver...

“Have you tried our native app? Please please please download our stupid app PLLLEEEEASE?!?!!??!”

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...)

The subdomain resolves! …and sends you to new reddit

The whole app situation reminded me the nightmares we had to face with browser toolbars that would get installed without our consent and would end up a mess!

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/xbehqk/2000s_int...

web was nice, when the only CSS was background and text colors

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