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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

web 1.0 wasn't flashy but it got the point across. bring it back.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That white text on gray background. What a design choice.

Aesthetic > readability. The user can just select all on the page if they want to actually read it, right?

Edit: It was pointed out to me that this brings up a random URL every time someone clicks it, so everybody is not seeing the same thing. Whoops.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every time you click that link you will get a different web page... so...

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, I see now. I'm dumb. I didn't realize this just brings up random URLs to web 1.0 pages. Thanks for pointing that out!

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Although if you click through a few of them, your comment is probably applicable!

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still prefer readability over aesthetics. There's many people with disabilities that I hope you never get through what they do. If there's something to be read that you can barely see, then what would be it's value?

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should have put a /s because the comment about aesthetic over readability was sarcastic. I was just joking, and I definitely agree with you.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, thank you for the clarification, didn't wanted to sound mean.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

being back walkmans and discmans too