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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 161 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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".

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

26a: Note that they will simply add more categories over time and helpfully subscribe you to each of the new ones whether you ever visit the site again or not.

[–] moody 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unsubscribe? You mean report spam

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Unsubscribe is for real suckers only. When someone clicks that I always imagine some goon elbowing the guy next to him and saying something like, "look Keith we got another" unsubscriber" over here!" With a big goofy grin on his face.

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the email is from a legitimate business, they must have an unsubscribe button and it has to work. They get a little time before they are required to process the request, 10 days in the US, but I've usually seen it take effect immediately.

Don't click the unsubscribe button in an actual spam email.

[–] moody 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you didn't ASK to receive emails from them, it's spam and it should be reported as such.

Fuck unsubscribing from things I didn't subscribe to.

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blocked an ad that fucked up the css so dramatically that the checkout button is now permanently stuck at -10% of viewport.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I tried to order chicken teriyaki so it would be ready for my wife to pick up en route home. Website requires a login. Make it. It doesn't log in after creating the login, so log in again. Password wrong. Reset password. Finally get in. Get to last step and there's no button to send the order. Fortunately, I'd wasted so much time that my wife was already there standing in line.

I assume it's just formatted for mobile, but when I'm sitting at my computer, I'm going to use it, it's always faster. Except when it doesn't work.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"tHiS wEbSiTe Is BeTtEr In ThE aPp!"

[–] curry@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bold of you to assume people know the difference between an app and a website.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The App:

One WebBrowser component.

A straw to slurp all your location and contact data.

Annoying notifications.

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[–] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Awebo@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The worst thing is that you gave them the permission to send emails to you, but you did not even notice it.

If you give some information to any for profit company you can be sure they will use that information and if you decline the permits they are going to keep asking until you eventually miss click.

For example if you fill shopping basked, but abandon it after filling your information they can contact you once as "a friendly reminder" about the cart and they can keep that information legally for few weeks until they must anomize the data. And if you at some point clicked something where you accept the marketing permits they can keep that information "as long as the company thinks it is reasonable to keep and/or revelant information for their operation."

Source: Im part of the problem. Atleast for now.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AdNauseam. It clicks all the adverts. Yes, this is actively malicious behaviour. No, I don't care.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Malicious against advertisers, beneficial to the site you're visiting.
That's a win-win in the desolate place we call the internet today.

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[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

#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.

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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There are just things that should be physical things.

IDs and fucking buttons in cars please. Holy fuck please can we not do the IPAD thing in cars. Please God.

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[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago
  1. 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
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

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.)

[–] MissingInteger@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You don’t need an extra extension for the cookie notices. Just use uBlock Original for that:
Under Filter lists enable "Cookie notices"

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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I like to tell people that using uBlock origin means the computer doesn't have to render images and text in adds, so it is actually more environmentally friendly to have it installed than running the browser raw.

It's a thin argument, but I'm happy to see that some people have jumped on because of it.

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[–] oneandonly@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Me just trying to fucking pay a utility bill:

"Honey, could you come in here and tell me if this looks like the edge of crosswalk just visible behind that car? I have one chance left and can't mess this up!"

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I had one the other day, choose to login with password or the magic email link. I know my password, let me in fucker. Oh no, you still have to go to your email and click on some link to verify it’s really you.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

well, a large language model.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think most of this could be avoided if you used ublock origin

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

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.

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Website wants to know your location

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[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

20b : shipping is abusively eating up the low price

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[–] commander 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.'

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] joanwestenberg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck this is accurate

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] JustAThought@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t forget to reject notifications.

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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