Bad UX
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I thought maybe displaying a dialog that says "SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE" front and center, that steals cursor focus (after a random delay), and covers content, might have been a better illustration of the phenomenon, considering it's more intrusive than the pop-under ads of the early 00's.
"Failure to verify. Click all squares containing a traffic signal."
I hate how much unpaid labor I've given to Gemini just because so many sites fall for the DDOS shakedown. And I've heard the story about how PayPal's captcha saved the company or whatever, I just don't think the solution should be appointing Google as your gatekeeper.
There is that one guy that orders 50lbs anvils from Amazon, just to return them. He has been doing that for 6 months. This is the kind of thing that makes a person do that.
Kind of illustrates how detached they are from actual substance and how shallow their understanding of what bad UX really means.
Anyway, no response until a year and a half later, then one day a simple F-you came back.
https://www.google.com/search?q=askew
PS: https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX is a cleaner submission link without any tracking.
Hating on Comic Sans is getting tired, those that call themselves 'designers' but merely imitate are the chief culprits.
I have no use for the font, or rather, typeface, myself, but I don't belittle those that do use it. You can guarantee some charity fundraising thing pegged to the noticeboard in a supermarket will use Comic Sans, and I am okay with that. If there was a fridge magnet font by Fisher Price then I would be okay with that too.
Imagine how boring the world would be without the little things that annoy 'designers'.
I am okay with Google Easter Eggs, generally, just so long as Google have a top class product, but they have lost their edge, and, whilst the product is lacking, Easter Eggs will look silly.
I was tired of the hate 20 years ago. And yet people still feel the need to keep beating the dead horse. It mystifies me.
It's a playful font, so using it for playful things is great! Anything related to children's activities, it's a fine choice.
But then people use it for things that aren't playful. A sign at your bank saying they're low on coins should not be in Comic Sans. Work e-mails should not be in Comic Sans. A resume should not be in Comic Sans unless you're applying for a literal clown job or Kindergarten teacher.
Edit: I guess this was already on the Google easter eggs wiki page, but I happened to find it randomly just recently.
Maybe the moral is that Good UX doesn't need bloated AI summaries on traditional search queries?
Saw it on Edge on win 10 though, nice.
Edit: Got it to work, culprit was Noscript with a block on gststic.com
Will the AI product ever become a real Google service? You know, like the product search everyone loves so much?
Any of Google's Android apps.
Pretending there to be a one size fits all solution when you have over a billion users.