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26: unsubscribe from the email promos that the site automatically signed you up to even though you didn't check the Subscribe to newsletter box, which requires you to log into the site and find and uncheck all the boxes in the "contact settings".

Missed the step towards the end were you have to switch browser and restart the whole process because "Firefox not supported" or you've an extension that's a bit overzealous on blocking the checkout popup window.

"tHiS wEbSiTe Is BeTtEr In ThE aPp!"

Don’t forget that it saved all of your credit card info except for the secret code. then you search for the card and find the stupid code and enter it and then it tells you that there was an unknown error and to try a new card.

They forgot the last step: delete the promo emails from the company you never signed up for

How people can deal with internet without adblockers like uBlock is just baffling. Not only ads, but also all the cookie banners and phone app popups and other crap. uBlock will filter all this shit out so you just use the website without junk and annoyances.

I've used the original Windscribe back when it was still a regular x86 app that acted like a local proxy and would filter out ads and banners. That was early 2000s iirc. Even back then I couldn't stand all this crap. Today I can't imagine browsing without uBlock or at minimum with DNS filtering which can't apply cosmetic filters or more advanced rules.

#2/9/14

you forgot that you need to select more options, scroll down, read every box carefully to make sure on doesnt mean off and off doesnt mean on, make sure you dont hit the button that ignores your choices and turns everything on anyways......

i fucking hate what this has turned into.

We have driver's licence as an app in norway. I was on my way into a pub where I was asked by a bouncer to show ID. I forgot my physical wallet with physical ID, so the dance started:

• Unlock phone.
• Find app.
• App requires national login. Enter personal number (Norwegian SSN)
• National login has 2FA via another app. Open that to confirm.
• National login requires password. My password is in a password manager, so I open that.
• Password manager requires password.
• and 2FA.
• Acquire password and scramble back to the app that required password for national log on.
• Complete login so I can show that I am 33 years old, which is over the required age of 18.

In reality, the bouncer just gave up on me at around step 5 and let me in.

26. cloudflare decides it doesnt like your user agent or IP or any of a myriad of other factors and denies you access completely, order has been cancelled

Cookie dismisser extension, bitwarden for passwords and 2FA codes, uBlock origin for annoying popups that can't be removed with DNS blocker directly.

There are ways to reduce the pain somewhat, but they shouldn't be necessary in first place.

(Well, hoomans and passwords are an issue that can't be solved easily, but the push for passkeys has been a nice nudge in a more secure and more usable alternative.)

Missing step of CAPTCHA asking you to click on motorcycle images, only for you to fail at least twice

Alternative to 7 they have this stupid magic email login where you cannot set a password but have to go to your mails everyone you need to login

Don't worry. Soon you'll be able to subscribe to a service where an AI will just order products you don't actually want for you.

I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker. Now we are bombarded by popups, but inside the website instead of new windows. The most annoying part is the times delay on them. When the page is loaded, you want to click on a link, but a fraction of a second before you click a promotion pops up and you click on that. Or the Google ads when searching. Click result.... Oh no, the ads loaded in, I clicked on an ad instead. Fuck you.

The amount of effort you need to put in to get the info you want. So annoying! They try so hard to keep you on their website as well. When I want to know a shortcut in excel:

• search for the shortcut
• missclick an ad
• try again
• find page with info
• close cookies
• close promotion
• need to login for info, go back to Google and try again
• close cookies
• close promotion
• start reading...
• info about what excel is used for
• history of excel
• story about the many shortcuts excel has
• close popup for newsletter
• story about different key on keaybord for windows and Apple
• story about why you would need this action you're searching for
• buildup to explanation what the actual shortcut is
• close promotion
• close another newsletter pupup
• finally the shortcut you're searching for. FFS

Realize that you havn't ordered there in a while and you've moved since the last time you ordered, you updated your billing address but it didn't update the shipping address and the product is now headed toward your old house.

Step 4 is a bit optimistic. Usually when I search something there are 30 products of what I specifically don't want before finding the single listing of what I do want.

Recent example. Needed a 8v 1A transformer
Searched AC to AC 8v 1A
Every listing on the first 3 pages were universal AC to DC adaptors that didn't have an 8v setting. the dials all went 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12.

Website wants to know your location

I work in web dev and it kills me every time to set up this stupid UX.

Honestly, this biggest problem is these damn pop ups actually work for conversions. If people would stop filling the pop up forms on the sites they would fade to obscurity but for every annoyed dev who closes the pop up asking for an email, there is 10 normies who give up their email or create an account or complete a purchase.

Static email sign up forms in the header or footer of a site are lucky to see a 1% conversion. The average pop up conversion rate in 2024 was 11%.. The highest preforming pop ups in this analysis had a 43% conversion rate, that is INSANE for web conversions. And those stupid gamification spin the wheel pop ups that I personally hate the most, have a 13% conversion.

20b : shipping is abusively eating up the low price

What's literally traumatizing are the scumbag sites that wait a little bit before showing you an email popup.

Like, I'll be reading something and then BLAM! I'm immediately taken out of my focus and have to, for the 1 billionth time (and counting!), refuse to give them an email address.

Fuck everyone who encourages this bullshit. Fuck everyone who actually gives them emails. It's likely an extremely low percentage of users, but that's all that it takes to ruin things for the rest of us.

Scumbag sites like that are actively contributing to lowering everyone's standards and making us get used to a 'new normal.'

Sure, at step 17 you are certain it's showing ngwt14 but it fails then takes you to an almost twenty year old "identify the motorcycles" with 8 pictures of a partial wheel... or is it a bicycle? And do they mean plural as in for the whole thing or in each image?

17a. Reject prompt to set up a pass key.

Fuck this is accurate

Using webmail can be avoided, but agreed on the rest.

PS: It gets worse when you use a script blocker and have to figure out which scripts are needed per website.

Don’t forget to reject notifications.

Who knew Yahoo! in its prime would be peak Internet.