[the_snooze]

>I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"

[unsupp0rted]

You can close the auto-playing video by simply waiting 10 seconds for the “x close” button to appear, which is 5px high and 12px wide.

[mhfu]

"which is 5px high and 12px wide"

And that is just the visible part, actual clickable area is 1px by 1px so even when you correctly click on the "x", you don't actually close it.

[procarch2019]

Reddit mobile site does this when you tap a post. It drives me nuts. Then you have to hit back, which refreshes Reddit and brings you back to the top. I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.

[xattt]

> I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.

This might also be a dark pattern to exploit attention spans compromised by chronic content consumption.

A user sees new content at the top of the page, forgets the content they wanted to see, sticks around to look at novel material.

THEN the user either goes back and gets distracted again, or at the very least, goes back to their intended page.

Also to note, Reddit disabled i.reddit.com (the old mobile site that was snappy) within the last month.

I wouldn’t be surprised if old.reddit.com was next on the chopping block.

[unsupp0rted]

The day old.reddit.com goes so do I

[jjulius]

I doubt they'll care. By that time, they'll be confident that whatever loss they incur by killing old. will be worth it for them. If there was an actually significant user base using old., I imagine "regular" Reddit would look a bit different than it does.

[wizzwizz4]

If you get value from Reddit, it might be worth trying to migrate that elsewhere. Better to have some control than none.

[geuis]

Completely honest here, I use old Reddit on mobile web. Under settings scroll down a bit and you'll see the option.

The cookie or whatever seems to expire every week or so, then I'm unceremoniously dumped back into the mess that is their "modern" design.

Despite that, the layout of old Reddit is much more information dense. Just use the phone in landscape and it's perfectly fine.

[jjulius]

Except for when you go to try and click that tiny x, only to find that there was an intentionally coded delay for another ad just above it that pushed the x lower on the page, so you end up clicking that other ad.

[plagiarist]

It looks like you have an ad blocker! Click here to disable it for this site.

Log in to continue reading this article.

And, oh, you don't want advertising cookies? Here's a list of a dozen categories you have to manually deselect one-at-a-time. To help with this there's a bright-colored button that says, "accept all" and a drab text link that says, "use my selection."

[pimeys]

Consent-O-Matic lets you to select which cookies you want in a site, and then automatically clicks the selections to popups if they appear. Has been working pretty well for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

[kvark]

Especially annoying when this shows up in Firefox on iOS which doesn’t even support plugins (uBlock) to begin with (since it’s on WebKit there).

[throwawaaarrgh]

Well it's impossible to have anything better than that. I mean, it's not like the worst solutions would win out and the entire planet would tacitly go along with it to prevent having to do something harder but better.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Block unvetted JS and that bullshit disappears. Your browser will be faster and you won't have to navigate around distractions hiding the content.

[phendrenad2]

Hey now, don't say anything bad about cookie consent popups, the Europeans will be waking up soon and they'll downvote you to hell.

[codersfocus]

I think someone should put up a counter of how many lives the EU parliament has taken by summing the collective time every cookie banner has taken from human cognition / lives. Maybe it'll be enough to charge them with crimes against humanity.