TheMightyEthan Posted July 17, 2017 Report Share Posted July 17, 2017 Well I'm flattered you're that confident I'm not a bot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted July 17, 2017 Report Share Posted July 17, 2017 Still a shit mod though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Login pages where you have to enter your username AND click next before you can enter a password.Also sites that disable pasting on the password field. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 I think most of it is down to reducing robot hacks, it kinda slows them down a lot and given that a chunk of places have had their password databases hacked and people carry on using the same passwords for multiple places. The fact that Google and Microsoft both have that process in place tells me that while it may be an annoying step it's also a bit of a required one. Unfortunately until something other than passwords are created as a security measure we'll be dealing with incumbencies like that above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Those pop-ups you get that tell you to disable an adblocker. Maybe I would do that if your ads didn't play videos and redirect me to malware! Ever think of that?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 I had a kind of aggressive one once, wanted to read the article so removed the blocker and it then dragged in ads n trackers from 45 different sources. Not some fly by night shifty site either, a relatively established site iirc. I understand the plight of sites wanting to make pennies but on the other hand not at my expense (in a "fucking up my PC" expense, as opposed to the monetary expense sense) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Websites that talk about something external of the site, but all the links in their article link to like internal tags so you end up having to go somewher else just to actually do what the article is talking about. In this case it was PC Gamer talking about the Lawbreakers free weekend...with no mention (or links) on what platform that was through, but three internal pc gamer links in a 200 word article. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted November 3, 2017 Report Share Posted November 3, 2017 I really dislike how youtube now shows related videos while the video you're watching is still playing, putting the links right in the middle of the picture and obstructing your view. I don't know if this is an automatic thing or if the user has to deliberately put them there, but it's annoying as fuck and as far as I know there's no way to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 3, 2017 Report Share Posted November 3, 2017 Maybe you're in an AB Group? Apart from when channels put up like "check these videos out" bits there's rarely any links that cover up the video and usually those ones are framed in such a way the presenter isn't covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 3, 2017 Report Share Posted November 3, 2017 Yeah, I've never seen that before either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted November 4, 2017 Report Share Posted November 4, 2017 How am I the only one who sees this? I see it probably a dozen times whenever I decide to watch youtube videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 God I am so sick of seeing people on the internet who don't understand how free speech works. Being banned from someplace for acting like a douche, whether it's a forum or a game or even a movie theater, is not a violation of your rights. All these things are privileges, not rights you fucking idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 29, 2018 Report Share Posted December 29, 2018 God, I hate internet lists that divide the entries up onto 20 different pages, forcing you to click each one individually. I know what you're doing, you motherfuckers, and it doesn't matter because I use uBlock so you can all KISS MY DICK. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 29, 2018 Report Share Posted December 29, 2018 I just don't go through them anymore, and on a similar note any sites I can't easily manage cookies I don't bother with. I've literally spend minutes in the past clicking around in circles for sites I've wanted to use so if it's just a click through from the search page I go straight back and try another that doesn't try to confuse me into accepting their terms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 I have literally never managed website cookie settings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 (edited) I don't know if it's because I;m in the EU then, but literally any website you go to has a popup telling you to accept their cookies and tracking etc. some it's a bar at the top/bottom so you can just ignore it if you're only reading one page, but often it it a massive overlay right in the middle with the page greyed out and unscrollable so you literally cannot ignore it. If you've just searched something like "location of best horse RDR2" and you click through to this: it's a bit annoying. I don't want to just accept everything and while that kotaku one isn't bad as you can get rid in 3 clicks some websites you have to scroll through the whole privacy policy just to find out you cannot manage setting on their website only through your own browser behaviour and third party websites like adchoices. If you only want to read a couple of lines of text or see one picture it's just not worth it. On a similar note, I've always had in mind to reject 3rd party cookies, and I think most browsers reject them as default, but now you get a warning when you go on many websites that because you reject 3rd party cookies your choices will not be remembered. You need to enable tracking so they know not to track you but that opens you up to other sites tracking you without you realising. that also means you often have to go through the same rigmarole each time you visit the same site. It's genuinely got to the point where it has hampered my use of the internet. Edited December 30, 2018 by TheFlyingGerbil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 It's one of those things where I think the law is needed, though also needs to be enforced. But my cynical self feels that many of the super awkward big ole full screen pop-ups and buried menu options like in the Kotaku option above (and Polygon/Vox are far worse) is a kind of "make people hate this and associate it with GDPR and then GDPR can be revoked n we can run all of our tracking cookies again n wooh loads of ads to plaster everywhere". For the most part an adblocker deals with most of the cookies and the pop-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 Which adblocker gets rid of those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 I've definitely seen the bars at the bottom, mostly on UK based sites, but I've always just had to click accept once and they're gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 Pinterest needs to fuck off already. Not only do they try very hard to keep you from sharing images they steal from other sites, but they're always on the first few results of a Google image search, making it that much harder to get an actual source. You can't even click your mouse on their shitty fucking website without it harassing you to sign up. EAT A FUCKING DICK, PINTEREST! I'M NOT JOINING EVER! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 5, 2019 Report Share Posted July 5, 2019 It's not so much a pet peeve, but I really can't justify watching a movie "review" that's longer than 15 minutes. Why watch a 40-120 minute video review of a movie? It always means it's a bunch of dudes who can't get to the point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 God I am so tired of picture based captchas, especially the "click verify once all pictures of X are cleared" kinds. I tried to sign into my PSN account on my laptop and had to load and then dismiss a picture of a fire hydrant six times. Enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 I don't mind those because it still seems cool to me that I'm helping train self-driving car AIs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 On one hand it's cool to help train AI cars. On the other it's annoying to find it's only necessary because America doesn't follow the Vienna convention of road signs, so not only are your road signs and standards different from much of the globe they can vary state to state. On 7/5/2019 at 3:56 AM, CorgiShinobi said: It's not so much a pet peeve, but I really can't justify watching a movie "review" that's longer than 15 minutes. Why watch a 40-120 minute video review of a movie? It always means it's a bunch of dudes who can't get to the point. Deep dives can be fun though. Film podcast I listen to normally does short 5-10 minute film reviews at the end, but occasionally does bigger things on specific films including 6hr epic on Mission Impossible: Fallout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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