Posted on 06/08/2016 7:51:19 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
I just have to get this off my chest, websites in general have become incredibly annoying! Videos play that I don't want to watch, I start reading something and a pop comes up asking me sign up for an email I will never ever read, flash ads give me the dizzy;s, your bullshit plugins give me script errors and on average you leave 10-15 tracking cookies.
And you folks are surprised people are using ad blocker? If someone comes up with annoying blocker you are screwed! Concentrate on user experience and then revenue, I just flat out leave websites I would usually spend more time on but you literally chase me away or lock up my browser.
#34 Thanks for that link.
10% of your cpu usage is huge. 1% is marginally high.
Too true. The noise to news ratio is extremely high. One of the best-designed websites (and most user-friendly) I’ve ever seen is the Drudge Report. Everything is on one page and everything can be found in a matter of seconds.
What kills me is that some of the worst websites are major MSM sites. They have some of the worst video formats that won’t load or don’t stream well.
I don’t resent website ads, per se, for exactly the reason your father described. It’s the same for much of he web as it is for TV. However, the ads now are almost certainly designed to be more incredibly obnoxious than one would imagine possible. It is almost as if the web designers are trying to get you to swear off their site and never come back.
How about having to scroll through pages of jumbo-sized nonsense to learn nothing about the product or service?
Amen, and Amen!
Websites need to move to HTML5 and get rid of flash. It pisses me off to no end.
There are still sites running Java in the browser? Who knew!
I'm sure there is some internet museum curator who would value your specimens for his collection.
I honestly don’t understand it. The ads and pop ups and flashy stuff that doesn’t let you scroll on their sites KEEP US AWAY. What is the point to that business model? How could it be working for them? I won’t see their ads because I won’t go to Breitbart, etc. I cannot read the articles, so I won’t go. Not understanding that biz model.
Exactly - I don’t mind ads, I understand that’s how some sites are possible. But when you cannot cannot cannot read articles, the things just won’t scroll, flashing ads you can’t remove, then what is the point of the ad? I won’t be on the site long enough to see it and I won’t be back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
I note Brave is based Chromium, Mozilla's arch-rival in the browser biz.
Bet it is out scourced
Ad blockers such as Adblock Plus can really slow down a computer. Ublock Origin seems to be an exception. The developer calls it an efficient blocker that is easy on CPU and memory, and that seems to be right.
Good one!
Chrome has an interesting feature to address that annoyance.
The typical article page pattern is to have a narrow content column surrounded by ads and navigational junk on the left and right. The end result is that, if the page as a whole is comfortably displayed, the content column will be scrunched down to uncomfortably fine print.
Chrome's solution: The user double-right-clicks the content column. Then Chrome uses the click to figure out where in the page the content column is, it's width, etc., and zooms it to fit the whole window width. That almost always makes the text eminently readable and sometimes over-large. The user can then adjust the final size using two-finger squeeze / expand. Or alternatively, double-click again to see the whole page and pick a different spot to double-click and reapply the algorithm. It almost always solves the problem. It's a stroke of genius!
Except today you can buy a camera that will do 99% of the $200K camera's job for 0.5% of the price and surf the net, give turn-by-turn driving directions, and make phone calls in the bargain. Not to mention being far more likely to be in the right place at the right time.
lighting and news casters cost a bundle and set designers need money for their families
Sounds like there's a pencil in need of sharpening, to use an archaic metaphor.
imo, the Web needs to rethink it's monetizing system. We had a good model before the web, it was called "Subscriptions". It worked pretty well. But when the Web came along, everyone thought it was a good idea to make everything free. Yippee! How cool. That was the first dumb mistake, the original sin. We need to start over now - and charge for everything. And I don't mean 29.99 a month. That was another mistake. The old model was like 49 dollars bi-yearly. Follow that.
Aw C’mon, Simon Foxx. I is one of those people who build things for the idiots with the handhelds.
(But I do hate the ads - that’s not my world). The concept (called responsive design) does have benefits for when you don’t have the table space for a desktop or laptop. A good responsive site would allow the user to select the information they deem most important.
In fact, it would be very cool in some cases if a certain web site (who shall not be named for fear if the zot) could go to a more responsive design as well.
As a web and mobile developer, here’s what I would do if I have an info or web blog site (building from scratch):
1. No Flash
2. No Java
3. There will be cookies, but only to track users on my site do determine how often they visit the site.
I would give visitors a grace period or free section, then a small automated monthly fee for membership or paid membership area. Those fussing about that charge have no idea the costs in keeping a quality, high traffic web site up on running.
Content is king. This rule has worked since there have been websites: If there is information on your site that people want to see, they will pay market value for access to it.
... and that is why all those fishwrap (a.k.a. newspaper) web sites are going down the tubes.
just my $0.02
jimjohn - OUT
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