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My main pet peeve is those links with the double green underlines that turn out to be Amazon Affiliate links or something similar. You try to avoid them with your mouse, but then you accidentally slide over one, and, oh no!, the article you were reading has been interrupted.

I hate content ads, mainly. I don't mind Google ads or even banner ads. But when they start appearing in the articles, I get mad.

Also, pop-under ads. I don't mind pop-ups. They're easy to close. But for pop-unders, you've got to minimize your browser to close them.

I hate Snap previews. Hate them hate them hate them.

*it's the only pet peeve I can think of at the moment, other than Movable Type blogs stupid commenting system. But that's not going to kill web surfers anytime soon, aye?*

Those frivolous Facebook applications.

Like Steven and shadowsun7 above, I dislike anything that interrupts my reading of the page. Be it Snap Previews or any ad that auto loads when your cursor rolls over it. Also, why don't website owners and advert creators realise that if we want to hear something, we'll turn the sound on? Stop auto-playing stuff. When I have 20 tabs open it can take a while to work out where the annoying noise is coming from that is disturbing my listening to music I have chosen.

Snap Previews

Those giant link index sites that come up for damn near every search query and have nothing to do with your actual search.

Flash ads that play sounds

Whiners. Yes, that will happen very quickly...

I don't mind the ads on my reading mainly because anything I read won't be important anyways lol.

Honestly I don't want anything gone. People put ads for their own reason, and we put ads for our own reason, and there ain't nothin' wrong with having a reason.

For a while there were fewer of those terrible dancing mortgage rate ads, but now they seem to be back. I hate them, hate them, hate them.

Advertisements that block your viewing of a web page and have a little X on the corner, so you have to close them manually before you can actually read the page. (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED!!!!)

I generally agree with the above: Less disruptive web experiences; snap preview and ads that block your view are high on that list. (I'd wish for MySpace to make their designs appealing and usable, but apparently that's not an issue for them so I'll just have to keep dodging their pages.)

If Snap Preview (now called "PreviewShots") and text ad links annoy you, do you tell the blogger or webmaster? Does it really make you never want to come back, or do you just hate these and tolerate them?

I like text ads, especially when they're context based. I've bought things through them, they're unobtrusive and genuinely useful.

But yeah, the snap ads, or the sound enabled flash ads I'll email a complaint if there's a contact point. I won't go back to the site unless I end up there accidentally.

9/10 times the site does not have good content anyway when they're employing those kind of ads.

There's a local newspaper that actually uses pop ups and pop under ads. Boy did I lose respect for them when I visited their web page the first time.

I've blocked most adverts and snap (amongst other) scripts from loading using Adblock Plus. ABP when used with its Element Hiding Helper is great for removing all the all sorts of annoying shit from websites.

I know this doesn't fix the long term problem (that people are using this crap on their sites) but it does make my life a lot easier.

My personal whinge would be against partial/crippled RSS feeds especially for entries that I just want a link from and the RSS version strips this out. Examples:

• Digg (last time I checked - I use a direct feed somebody cobbled together)
• Other news sites like LinuxToday that just link to other content but I have to click through their site to see it. In LT's case, I've Adblocked EVERYTHING except the content I want. I do this to other sites like Gizmodo.
• Several comics (I made my own direct tool for this to fetches the content and builds me a RSS feed)

Is this piracy? Do I care? Probably not.

kids on youtube
zombies on facebook
lil girls on myspace

and

JOHN CHOW

If Snap Preview (now called "PreviewShots") and text ad links annoy you, do you tell the blogger or webmaster?

Usually not unless I've had some sort of contact before. It's a predicament because presumably the owner visits his own blog and a stranger's advice could therefore be understood as implying he's a tasteless idiot.

This is of course if we're talking about small/personal site. If we're talking about a commercial site that expects user feedback, like Sports Illu., I will give impromptu feedback (if I think someone will listen).

Does it really make you never want to come back, or do you just hate these and tolerate them?

If the content is good I can tolerate it; and if I keep coming back I'll eventually drop a line and ask why they have the previews or other disruptive feature installed.

PreviewShots - I agree. I dislike them and find them disruptive, I won't tell a random blog I just happen to come upon, but someone I read regularly I will tell.

Outlaw memes, tags or whatever they are called.

If you'd kindly tell everyone not to start a blog about blogging, one day after they've started to blog.

I'd also get rid of google page rank, alexa rank, technorati authority or anything like them ,as people who start to blog these days are so obsessed with those things they barely have time to do anything but copy and paste from other sites.

red colored fonts on dark backgrounds.

Oh, and a federal law making spam blogs illegal.

Do you really think a federal US law will do much to stop scrapers and splogs? They know no geographic or government boundaries, much like online gambling, for which there are serious laws but US citizens continue to represent something like 50% of online gambling income (for the casinos not the players).

I'm with you on the font and background colors and the thought that anyone can blog.

Definitely the snap previews and any flash ads (sound or not). Snap previews are obtrusive and the flash ads eat a ton of cpu. I switched from Firefox to Opera now, so I'm missing AdBlock Plus for flash ads (I'm sure there's an alternative though).

The only other thing I can think of is websites with pure white text (#fff) on a pure black background (#000). I have sensitive eyes and the contrast difference makes me go blind if I read more than a paragraph. I always have to change the CSS manually on sites like that.

Certainly the war between the cross browser problems and designers.

Mainly i use IE and Firefox, or firefox only.
When i finish my project designing using css and stuff like that, suddenly i find that what i can see in firefox is not appearing on IE, so i have to spend some more hours in fixing mainly the drop down menus.

This is the bigget problem for me, so i would like every browser to take some common web standards.

Time for Web 2.0 to die. And I want all of those annoying Presidential campaigns gone by the end of year!

Firefox should rule the world!

I would like to see their share % grow by leaps & bounds in 2008

Anything facebook related and "beta". Beta is nothing more than a fashionword nowadays.

Beta is nothing more than a fashionword nowadays.

I'd say it's more of a beta-fashionword. Really not quite ready for full-fashionword status JUST yet.

-on topic-
Ditto to the obtrusive ads and preview links, and facebook apps.

I'd like to see HD-DVD gone in favor of Blue-ray (which looks like it's happening), we don't need this two-format crap.

Google.

Oh that's an interesting one. What do you have against google? I can't get decent search results from any other company.

Three things:

IE6

Flash Fly Out Ads

and rotating banner ads that flash and blink

As has been said, anything that get between me and the content I am trying to read.

Page Preview crap
Ads that hover over content
login walls at newspapers ( thank you bugmenot!)

Oh my... I'd love to see MySpace gone, and those pointless/annoying Facebook applications (like superpoke, my super duper fun wall, etc). Oh, and IE6...

Lets get rid of Facebook altogether. I still haven't figured out what made it so overpopular all of a sudden.

Anything that flashes, blinks, covers up the content, or makes music at me without my consent. I HATE blogs that have little musicky things in the sidebar that start automatically after the page loads. I just want to send these people mail that says "make your site STFU!"

I agree with NelsonDesigns. IE6 has to go. It's still just about the biggest thorn in my side as a web designer. I'd also like to see bad grammar on blogs go. I understand slipping up every once in awhile—I'm a human too. But if you can barely form an intelligible sentence, maybe blogging isn't the best thing for you.

- Get rid of support for IE6 period
- Useless apps on facebook (who need three walls?)
- Blink ads
- Scrolling, popup ads
- Overly trendy "web 2.0" sites...i mean come on, get creative, be original...
- Stop calling trendy looking sites "web 2.0" sites. Web 2.0 is about the functionality era of stuff on the web today like AJAX and Social Networking...

Internet Explorer 6.

Intrusive adverts.

As above, IE would be a good riddance, but doubt it will happen....

Domain squatting (for long periods). Every time I go hunting for domains and see what one has, it's almost always some generic advertising page.

Trebuchet...

*runs