When they ask you about cookies and you can "accept all" in one click, but if you want to reject all that aren't strictly necessary you have to navigate to a different page
Yeah, this should be illegal. I predict California and/or the EU will get rid of it soonish (within the next 10 years maybe? not the most experienced forecaster).
For me it's Google search's tab order. They always switch up the tabs for web, images, videos, etc. depending on what you search for. It makes the experience very unpredictable and annoying.
Recently they've also started putting related searches next to the tabs 🤦
Without counting user-hostile design: automatically playing any sort of sound as soon as you enter the website. Specially radio. Thankfully at least Firefox doesn't allow this crap any more,
I decide how many lines I want to scroll with the wheel and I also intentionally disabled "smooth scrolling". No need to change that, thank you, stupid website!
And scrolling up and down constantly cause there's not enough screenspace to show all the information (because 90% of the screenspace is empty or used for enourmous padding)
When a website changes the scrolling to be smooth and slow. Like I don't want my scrolling to accelerate really slowly for ages and then decelerate for the same amount of time, I want my scrolling to be quick and responsive.
Also when websites change scrolling to be anything other than scrolling, like the iMac 24-inch Website when the scrolling animates the screen and stand instead of just scrolling.
I used a shopping website today, where mousing over the header pops up a fullscreen navigation menu, and the only way to close it is to mouse over an empty part of the header. Made me do a lot of cursor gymnastics when trying to switch tabs while avoiding the damn menu.
That popup asking about cookies because they cause cancer in California or whatever. It should auto decline cookies and have a button at the bottom to manually sign over your first born child if you choose to do so.
When you’re on a shopping site and a little pop up appears over the picture of the item telling you how many people have bought it in the last day and how many have viewed it. I don’t care!! Just let me see the actual item!
There are also those headers that auto-hide when you scroll down, but pop back up at the slightest upward scroll, blocking the line at the top of the screen that you were trying to read.
When a website features an (embedded) video at the top and you need to scroll down to read the text unterneath the video:
If not disabled by your browser, the video playback starts. You stop the video. You beginn to scroll down to read the text unter the video, because you don't want to watch the video. Now the video pops out and begins to play and hovers over the area where the text is displayed.
I hate websites that either don't have a reject all cookies button or they make it suuuuper tiny and put it so close to the big accept button which causes you to accidentally hit accept if you're on mobile
@[email protected] Oh, and for similar levels of rage inducement: Combining the infinite scrolling pattern with useful links visible in a footer for the brief moments it is visible before being pushed off the screen by the new stuff dynamically added to the page.
Some websites like Behance try to 'fix' this by making the footer sticky, but their footer links are useless anyway. It just wastes more screen space along with the sticky header.