[jiggawatts]

> western design feels like having a dump truck emptied on you.

To me it feels like when you walk into a whitegoods store and a sales guy with a fake smile immediately makes a beeline for you. Look... sigh... I'm "just browsing".

Or when there's that insufferable person in the meeting (possibly called Karen) that literally puts her hand in your face to shut you up mid-sentence.

Like... we're adults here. I'm talking. You just shoved your hand in my face like that's normal! What... the... #%@(9$?

That's what modern web feels like. They see you reading the content, scrolling through it and... STOP! Read the hand! NOW!

[biztos]

Fascinating, I don't think I ever heard "whitegoods" before. In case I'm not alone: refrigerators, washing machines and the like, in UK English. I think.

So like this:

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk

But maybe not this:

https://www.whitegoods.com

[tupac_speedrap]

That's right, basically kitchen appliances, although fancy lads have separate utility rooms for washing machines and tumble dryers, and they often come in white so I guess the term stuck.

[greggsy]

‘Whitegoods’ is commonly used in Australia too.

[mstade]

In Sweden also. We say "vitvaror" which literally translates to white goods.

[BurningPenguin]

Same in German: "Weißwaren" also translates directly to white goods. I think it's amazing to see the similarities in languages.

[biztos]

Wow I’d never heard (or at least noticed) that and I speak German. Turns out they have red, brown and black too.

https://www.hotelier.de/lexikon/w/weisse-ware

[reportgunner]

In Slovak we call it "Biela technika" which translates to "White technology".

[gkedzierski]

Interesting. It would be almost same “biała technika” in Polish but I’ve never heard that term.

[ubercore]

Was a tiny culture shock learning "hvitevarer" when I moved to Norway too.

[jorvi]

Dutch as well. ‘Witgoed’

[dotancohen]

I immediately hit D (Tridactyl, close page) the instant a popup happens when scrolling or reading. It is so instinctive now that I don't miss the content at all. I think maybe once or twice I've had to reopen the page (also easy in Tridactyl, U) to read content that was critical but not available elsewhere.

I just hope that there is some Google Analytics event that is triggered on page closes within a few hundred miliseconds of the popup interruption.

[annadane]

Hello, fellow Tridactyl user :D