And those -what are they, spammers? Flogging dating services midway through a comment, or unbelievable bargains to be had on football jerseys, designer knockoffs, sneakers…
I wish a posse would band together, track these idiots down, throw them in a pit and bury them under a cargo conainer full of Ed Hardy bikinis, Gucci sunglasses, and ugly imitation Coach bags. And light all that crap on fire.
Someone must be buying that stuff, somewhere. They’re the equivalent of illegal immigrants displaying fake Rolexes on a cardboard box, on a street corner.
Sites with eleventy-billion pieces of unnecessary clutter on them. The cheezburger network sites are notorious for this. I like their sites but they contain WAY too much crap surrounding the relevant stuff.
You get to a site, and this ad slides across the bottom of the screen, with a thumbnail of some skank, and the caption HOT GIRLS WANT TO TALK TO YOU IN <insert your city here>. Look, I know Interweb privacy is nonexistent, but you don’t have to rub my face in it!
I take it you’ve never been to a Radio Shack. (bolding mine)
As others have said, for me it is the comments sections of sites, with YouTube and news sites being among the worst. The amount of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia expressed is astonishing, and further solidifies my belief that a growing, and not insignificant, number of Americans proudly cleave to intolerance and ignorance.
For some reason pretty much everywhere I have ever lived the ip location is way off, so those ads would always be more like “HOT GIRLS WANT TO TALK TO YOU IN <insert city 30 miles way here>.”
It is to the blog writer, who’ll always get a kick out of being read, and interacting with his readers no matter how dumb. Least it was always fun to me - the good ones made me glad I had written and gotten to know them or brightened their days in some minor way, and laying into the bad ones was quite cathartic.
For the blog readers, I dunno. I rarely read what other people comment on blogs. I want to talk to the author, not his fanclub.
Ads that exist just to annoy, not to advertise. The vimeo style youtube video comes to mind. The exact same video exists in eleven different incarnations, all without the thirty second ad. Do they really think I’m not just going to hit the back button and click on the next link?
In the same vein, I can also remember many instances where I wish to access a bit of information- could be a news story or an article, but I must first register for the site. Do they really think I’m not just going to hit the back button and click on the next provider?
And especially common on sites like CNN.com, the comments that contain nothing but a link to another blog post that contains a copy/paste of the first few lines of the article and a link back to the article you just left. These seem to be nothing more than attempts to increase hits on the second site.
What else…?
Despite YouTube showing how relatively easily it can be done, there are still plenty of sites that can’t serve a video that loads in a reasonable amount of time or consistently on all platforms/browsers because they insist on wrapping said video in their own proprietary crap.
Sudden attacks of audio. Hey, some of use are trying to read this shit at work! Let’s try for some discreet. It’s why my work PC is perma-muted.
The 94% of restaurant websites in my city that insist on nasty frames and flash. The rest of the internet kicked Flash in the teeth around, what, 2005? But the foodie world, like a chef who spends more time on ‘plating’ than making a decent Bearnaise for that hanger steak, they just can’t keep it simple and useful. Entirely typical.At least this one quits moving once you get to the dinner menu.
Ooh, look, everything I hate! Turn your speakers down, but not totally off. This really needs the soundtrack for the full effect-and it doesn’t stop… :eek:
I hate your blog. You own a dog, and you feed it.
You post about it. I get to read it.
Plus: five paragraphs on the socks you bought
and your thoughts on whether Nicole Ritchie’s hot or not.
You got no reason to be typing, yet you persist.
Hit each key with your fist till you punch out your top ten list
of all the things that ever happened in your life.
Number one: met Michael Jackson’s second wife.
Number two: got Curly on the Which Stooge Are You
Poll, as the GIF proves. Click for the link-through!
Three: saw puppy pictures on a web page,
kittens in a nest egg. The idea gestated:
Why not open up your own?
So you bought the account and yet I hope you don’t
put the payments in on it every month like they want,
‘cause then you’ll disappear off the internet, haunt
just the Wayback Machine like a ghost.
And I won’t be like, “How come you don’t post??”
I promise I won’t.
I have workarounds for most things and am pretty easygoing about the others. I wouldn’t say I hate, but I am irked by, the sites that do not allow you to go back. That is, you Google for something, realise it’s not what you were looking for, and click back (either by keyboard or mouse) and it just redirects you to the page you were on.
I am NOT going to buy anything from that site. If they had anything worth buying immediately, I would have stayed and bought it; if it was more for later consideration, I’m not going to bookmark it. It really is a very good way of driving away my business.
It reminds me of double-glazing salesmen from the eighties.
I would’ve thought that for something to rise to the level of hate, it’d have to be something that you can’t easily avoid. The comments on youtube and such are almost always below the content you’re reading/watching. Just stop scrolling down; you’ll be much happier.
I had to take a lot of information from a website with me in the car the other day so I unthinkingly hit print on a website comprising white text on a yellow background. I was in a hurry and didn’t think about it much. My printer is all out of yellow ink. I printed it out twice before I realised why the pages were coming out blank.
