Web Site Stuff That Bugs Me

There are a lot of things about some web sites that make me cringe. The worst is when I go to a site and a video starts playing and blasts me with sound. Most website designers know this is not good idea, but there are some who don’t know or maybe they don’t care. Either way, the first thing I do when I go to one of those sites is leave. Then I figure out how to stop that annoyance. Auto playing videos are evil!

More and more web sites are using a tactic that I just despise, they entice me with a number of things that interest me. Then I must click ‘Next’ repeatedly to view each item. This is also known a clickbait.



I really hate that and will often decide I am not that interested and just go on to something else.

I also hate ‘teaser’ sites. I saw one on Facebook.  It posted a ‘tease’ to get folks to go to their site and I had to click click almost endlessly before it came to the answer. I certainly won’t go back to that site again!

The tease: Real Rarity: Mother Gave Birth to Quadruplets and Then the Doctor Looked at the Face of the Babies and Saw This!  The fact was the babies were identical.

Tiny fonts and light grey colored fonts are not kind to my aging eyes. This forces me to use control plus (ctrl +) to make the fonts bigger and use an extension to change the background to black. Perhaps I am getting blind, but web masters should realize not everyone has perfect vision.

Popups wanting me to ‘Subscribe’. Some of them are even insulting.

This is one of the worst!



That wasn't blocked by most ad blockers.

Some sites won’t let you see their content unless you turn off your ad blocker or pay to see content. I make it a practice never to buy anything from an online ad. In the past, some of the ads online were for malicious sites. Until I am give an ironclad guarantee online ads are safe, I will continue to use an ad blocker.



Social media icons that cover content, so many ads that it takes forever to load a page are all major irritants.

How do I get around those sites that won’t let me see their content unless I disable my ad blocker? I use an extension that disables JavaScript and and then I re-load the page.



But then I have to remember to enable JavaScript or the next page like Facebook may not work.