Microblog Memes

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.'

Sharing screencaps from mastodon is acceptable, but only because it combats screencaps from twitter.

My first error was existing

"tHiS wEbSiTe Is BeTtEr In ThE aPp!"

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

my methods for downloading content for offline perusal that interests me evolve constantly. some of us have been doing for this song and dance for decades, and \

if you want to know how to distribute controversial antifascist content, ask a porn addict

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

Website wants to know your location

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.

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.

Not gonna lie, this ain't wrong.

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

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