Brad Frost’s list of bullshit:
Popups, jargon, junk mail, anti-patterns, sensationalism, begging for likes, tracking scripts, marketing spam, dark patterns, unskippable ads, clickbait, linkbait, listicles, seizure-inducing banners, captchas, QR codes, barely-visible unsubscribe buttons, 24-hour news networks, carousels, auto-playing audio, bloatware, sudden redirects to the App Store, telemarketing, ticked-by-default subscribe buttons, “your call is important to us”, pageview-gaming galleries, native advertising, the list of bullshit goes on and on and on.
I’d like to nominate the hidden/tiny source link at the end of a news item. Sites that do this and hijack the entirety of the interesting content in an article that they’re linking to are pretty much the worst kind of sites.
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