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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Never thought I'd miss frames. Though really, I always wondered exactly why they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Security nightmare as well

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine coding frames so that they worked well on both desktop and mobile would be a major pain in the ass.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

They died well before mobile formatting was a concern. I suppose other aspect ratios were getting more popular then. That and the security issues the other poster mentioned probably contributed.