Every Fucking Website (2020)

Posted by doubletwoyou 4 hours ago

Every Fucking Website (2020)(lxe.github.io)

549 points | 319 commentspage 2

RattlesnakeJake 3 hours ago|

That "In case you're not aware, there's COVID-19 happening" banner isn't nearly tall nor yellow enough. Given a 6-inch-tall screen, the proper layout would be:

  +-----------------+
  |2" of vestigial  |
  |COVID messaging  |
  +-----------------+
  |1.5" of actual   |
  | content         |
  +-----------------+
  |2.5 of EU        |
  |  cookie banner  |
  +-----------------+

A local utility took it even further during COVID:

  +---------------------+
  |2" of COVID messaging|
  +---------------------+
  |1" of undismissable  |
  | "our app is gone;   |
  | use the mobile site |
  | that you're on now" |
  +---------------------+
  |0.5" of content      |
  +---------------------+
  |2.5" of EU cookie    |
  | banner, despite     |
  | being a US-only corp|
  +---------------------+

jasonjayr 3 hours ago|

It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.

pbhjpbhj 3 hours ago|||

Clever people with no morals use that to load ads under your finger, timed to create an inadvertent click.

I swear NYT do this in their games app, the play button gets replaced with a subscribe as the late loaded subscribe element shifts the page exactly the amount to put subscribe under your finger. I wonder how well it worked?

bartread 2 hours ago||

Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick.

Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst.

The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads.

So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense?

The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.

monknomo 3 hours ago|||

manually scrolling before every widget loads should cause a full page refresh.

zooming in should cause a full page refresh

tedggh 3 hours ago||

As feedback, you made that popup way too clean and easy to close. That’s not how it works in reality. You need to make the background transparent and the X so small it’s technically impossible to hit. Also think about adding an ad and a timer and move the popup slightly after N ms so that the user always hits the ad.

peesem 3 hours ago||

inaccurate, i don't have to go three screens deep into a modal to choose only necessary cookies

nerdawson 3 hours ago|

The best one now is “Read for free” (give me all the trackers) or join a subscription and you can opt out. Pretty much every news / media site now

orthoxerox 3 hours ago||

That one is honest at least, makes you aware that you're the product.

s08148692 3 hours ago||

It's a bit 2025. Needs a scroll hijack background animation and cursor effects to be up to date for 2026

coldpie 3 hours ago||

Yeah. I've written about this a few times, with some suggestions for how to make it marginally less miserable to visit a website:

"Take back your web browser screen space with Kill Sticky" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

"Quick Tips For Making The Internet Suck Less" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th...

"Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-...

spottedmarley 4 hours ago||

No endless scroll? What the hell am I supposed do I do with my mouse wheel?? Useless!

hectdev 3 hours ago||

Needs a scroll that becomes a full page ad that when you scroll pass becomes the same ad but 1/3rd the page

bigbuppo 1 hour ago|||

And if you scroll back up the content above is completely changed to something else.

freudia 3 hours ago|||

Don't give them ideas... LoL

NetMageSCW 3 hours ago||

That is already deployed to real web sites.

frollogaston 1 hour ago||

If the website is for some product that's trying to look fancy, the scroll doesn't actually scroll but moves through some insanely laggy animation

poetry-leading 1 hour ago||

Reminds me of https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

mrmckizzle 1 hour ago||

It needs a feature that disables the whole page and prevents you from using it if it detects you are using Forefox.

buzzin__ 2 hours ago||

How hard could it be to write a greasemonkey script that will send the current html/Javascript from hell to a LLM with a prompt that will ask you which of the detected annoying elements you want to remove, and then will create and install another GM script that is removing those elements from this site, and also invent finglonger as a side effect. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.

yassa9 3 hours ago|

Yea , thank u , I really despite those websites of current web, much JS, colors, much images and animations with mouse, and million fonts , rounded buttons and everything is rounded and "modern" and slow and bloated why cant have we simple websites, small coherent nice color palette to just read and know the needed info ? hackernews is extremely good example suckless: https://suckless.org/sucks/web/ is another brilliant example

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