My bank also does this shit. It’s aggravating to use their website when every step along the way they put the burden of security on the user.

Pasting is disabled on almost every text field, even for things like account numbers (which they make you type in twice) when you want to do a transfer. The only way to log in is to manually type in your username, password, and a damn captcha everytime. The 6 digit 2FA code is the icing on the cake. If you idle for a minute or two, they log you out and force you to go through the whole thing again.

Aside from the ads, you also have to sift through all of the crappy clones and shovelware to actually find something useful.

This was my exact experience a couple of days ago when I was trying to find a CSV viewer.

Using GBoard begrudgingly because there’s no better alternative for me personally. I depend on the swipe typing and gestures a lot. Personalisation is off, and I don’t use the next-word suggestions that often.

I don’t really like SwiftKey’s design or its Microsoft affiliation. I wish there was a good open-source alternative. Florisboard looks promising, but the last time I tried it, it was still lacking in features.

I like USB-C especially when it clicks.

I feel this is partly caused by designers working with huge screens and forgetting that smaller screens exist.

For stuff like that, I always use this bookmarklet which instantly zaps any sticky elements.

Would be cool if it said anything other than something like “I’m sorry I do not understand your request”.

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.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers are made up. Just dark patterns to make it seem like the product is hot.

Though I’ve found it kinda interesting when websites show little messages like “Someone from country just bought item!”.

Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…

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.

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.

Agreed. So many websites want you to sign up for their newsletter before you’ve even read the first line of text.

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 🤦

I use Kiwi out of necessity. The modern web is unusable without some way to block ads, cookie popups, and sticky elements. It’s especially worse on mobile because every other website wants you to use their app.

“Are you always this quiet?”

“It usually takes me some time to be comfortable around new people.”

I’ve found that people are usually quite understanding and make an effort to include you in conversations if you just be honest with them instead of being snarky.

There is a GitHub issue about it. Looks like the endpoint could be added if someone is willing to work on it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1634

From what I understand, those shadow profiles are based on information that Meta gets about you from other users, or through things like cookies and tracking pixels.

Suppose that Meta builds a shadow profile for each fedi user, then how would they link it back to you? They cannot get your IP address from just being federated with your home server, and they cannot inject a tracking pixel to your server’s website. Is there another way that they could use your fedi activity to serve you targeted ads?

I don’t fully understand—would Meta be able to serve you targeted ads based on your non-Threads fediverse activities? Where would these ads appear? How do they know it’s you just from your fediverse accounts?

Not surprisingly, it does all the data tracking that it can for a “text-based conversation app”.