This has been widely noticed and commented on, but I'll repeat the same complaint myself, because why not.
Just a mere few years ago the vast majority of (completely reputable normal) websites were rather simple: You go there (often due to a google search), you get the content you were searching for, that's it. No fuss.
Nowadays, however, many websites can be extraordinarily irritating. And we are not even talking about obscure scammy websites selling shoddy products hosted in some Chinese server. Very often they are just major reputable mainstream websites that have existed for decades, like news or other similar sites.
The worst cases I have seen, and I'm not even exaggerating, implement all of these and are an absolute chore to get into the content: It asks for permission to use cookies (because apparently some EU law demands it), it whines about you using an ad-blocker and may or may not allow you to proceed without disabling it, it requests the browser to allow notifications (which causes a popup to appear from the browser's top bar), it asks you if you want to join a mailing list, and on top of all that it auto-plays a video without asking, and which you have to explicitly stop if you don't want it.
Many webpages use a combination of those, but yes, I have seen webpages where all of those are present. Getting through them is a complete chore. And that's assuming that the website actually allows you to proceed without disabling your ad-blocker.
It can be so irritating that quite often I just say "fuck it" and go back to the google search results and look for some other page.
Just a mere few years ago the vast majority of (completely reputable normal) websites were rather simple: You go there (often due to a google search), you get the content you were searching for, that's it. No fuss.
Nowadays, however, many websites can be extraordinarily irritating. And we are not even talking about obscure scammy websites selling shoddy products hosted in some Chinese server. Very often they are just major reputable mainstream websites that have existed for decades, like news or other similar sites.
The worst cases I have seen, and I'm not even exaggerating, implement all of these and are an absolute chore to get into the content: It asks for permission to use cookies (because apparently some EU law demands it), it whines about you using an ad-blocker and may or may not allow you to proceed without disabling it, it requests the browser to allow notifications (which causes a popup to appear from the browser's top bar), it asks you if you want to join a mailing list, and on top of all that it auto-plays a video without asking, and which you have to explicitly stop if you don't want it.
Many webpages use a combination of those, but yes, I have seen webpages where all of those are present. Getting through them is a complete chore. And that's assuming that the website actually allows you to proceed without disabling your ad-blocker.
It can be so irritating that quite often I just say "fuck it" and go back to the google search results and look for some other page.
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