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.
Agreed. Of all the mainline conservative commentators, Hannity has come out of the nomination fight with high honors for fairness and speaking the truth.
No, it wouldn’t. You have a funny definition of “responsive”. What you apparently call “responsive” I find to be completely “non-responsive” from my way of looking at things.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
I am glad you brought up FR, because it is a perfect illustration of what I am talking about. You may find FR antiquated in design, but it is the very simplicity and layout that makes it so easy and quick to navigate around.
I don’t want bells and whistles, and I could care less about ads (that’s what Ad-Aware Plus is for :>), but I want a website I can scan, get the info I want, and move on - not have to scroll endlessly, click endlessly and still wonder what I have missed.
Get it now?
Why don’t websites have a “desktop viewing” option for those of us who are not a part of the 20 something “don’t bother me with any depth I only have the attention span of a flea” generation?
Can you answer that? Is it really that difficult to do? I doubt it, I think the problem is that the @%!$! website designers are themselves largely from that generation, and that they, like all good navel-gazing 20-somethings automatically assume that if its technologically new, its good, and of course, everyone agrees right? W-R-O-N-G.
Another very good ad blocker is ublock origin. One can selectively block virtually any arbitrary portion of a given page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
Oh, I have Adblock Plus and it works very well. It just amazes me that the biggest media outlets in the nation use video formats that work so poorly. I thought they were way behind the curve ten years ago and they haven’t improved a bit since then.
And thank you for the link!
Excellent points. Thanks.
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