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Every single time I visit some low-rent website which gives the option of downloading an ill-considered, poorly-designed, incomplete, app-based version of itself, a small part of me dies.
Maybe that means one day I’ll crumble. Like Randall Munroe explains in the alt text of today’s XKCD:
If I click ‘no’, I’ve probably given up on everything, so don’t bother taking me to the page I was trying to go to. Just drop me on the homepage. Thanks.
Or, better yet, scrap your stupid app and make the mobile version of your website useable. Just a thought. [XKCD]
The Internet Is Terrible for the Sex Industry. No, Really
No One Wants to Download Your App When They Go to Your Website
Windows Phones Without Version 7.5 Won't be able to Download Apps From Today
Daily Mail are not only a despicable excuse for a newspaper, they are a big offender on this front.
Followed VERY closely by every single website which has the cookie law agrement footer hovering and following you around in the middle of screen on mobile devices.
+1 million
Pathetic
Please. Please stop posting daily XKCD. It’s not journalism. (Sorry – whining.)
XKCD is much better than journalism. If you don’t like it, scroll past it (or are you worried that the post is using up the internet?)
I have nothing against XKCD – it’s my favourite webcomic. What I object to is it being news. Everyone who wants to read XKCD will visit the XKCD website – I visit Giz for news, generally focused on tech, but not always. Oh, and the odd editorial-y column. I don’t visit Giz to view a comic I already check up on weekly.
Additional irritation: Tapatalk. No, I do not use it. No, I do not wish to. So STOP REMINDING ME every time I go to your damn forum.
^^ THIS FUCKER. Tapatalk needs to die.
THIS FUCKER indeed
I never understand why I want to have a bunch of apps installed for all the websites I occasionally visit. Just make a decent mobile site ffs.
Things are starting to go that way at least.
With responsive design taking off massively last year, hopefully mobile sites & Apps of sites will die.
I actually read those as
“Hi, we saw you wanted to access our website, but we thought you’d like a big pile of turds to munch on!”
[Never use site again] [Never Use site again]
Every forum I visit on an android device has this blasted popup message.
Same for me on iOS. Irritating doesn’t quite go far enough
What annoys me more is news services that link through to the FT where you need a subscription to access the article…
AND
BBC content that is from BBC International that doesn’t allow me to access the content because I’m in the UK; I though my licencing fund paid for the BBC so why the hell aren’t I allowed full access?
FT answer is simple: because they want their news to be exclusive and not scraped by Google and given away for free. I believe it’s also because it is part of the Murdochian cartel and he was keen on implementing pay walls to try and get online news to generate some money for itself – rather than giving it away.
Just wish news scrapers wouldn’t scrape the FT and link to articles behind a paywall.
Is there a gizmodo app which allows UK users to read comments on articles? Or maybe they could just use the same code as the US version which does allow you to…
NO. We need to to have a Responsive Gizmodo!
Giz.. could you start a poll about which websites offers the shittiest app for browsing it’s own content? You know, the respect where visiting the website on a terrible connection is better than using their own commissioned app on a good connection?