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[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

On a scale of zero to ten, how do you rate ads and captchas? Zero is completely neutral and harmless, and 10 is enough to spark acts of physical violence.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It completely depends on the context.

Ads can range from like 1 for relatively subtle ads that are separated from the content and have little to no tracking to 8 for ads that pop-up and obscure the content (I just go back when I see these).

CAPTCHAs can also range from like 3 for reasonable to complete puzzles put at reasonable locations (like signing up for a free account that may be used to spam or similar) to 9 when I have been a customer for 14 years and have purchased hundreds of dollars worth of stuff from the site and they slap them in random flows on the site when I am logged in.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Also the frequency of ads plays a significant role in how hard they are grinding my gears. For example, vanilla YT has become completely unusable because of this. Sites like that are easily above 6/10 IMO.

Those puzzle captchas are a total nightmare. At least 5/10. If they show up in bizarre situations, like the one you mentioned, the amount of annoyance starts at 6/10.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ads are 8/10 but it's been ages since I saw one of them. Captchas are easily 17/10.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Soo… a check list of war crimes, rivers running red etc?

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

These are 1/captcha, typically.