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> But it baffles me how websites can exist like this They do so because of the economics of the web. No-one pays for content, but basic advertising is low reve
by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> But it baffles me how websites can exist like this
They do so because of the economics of the web. No-one pays for content, but basic advertising is low revenue. So user experience is squeezed instead, with video ads and popups.
There are other factors too, of course. Businesses have strange priorities and can be quite myopic when they compare the value of a new feature with the value of leaving the site uncluttered. But the main reason scripting is slow is advertising.
- mercer 9y agoYes, I do get that (and said as much). What I don't get is websites that are literally unusable on mobile/iOS. There's no upside to that.
- jbreckmckye 9y agoFrom my experience, i) the people who push features don't actually use them; ii) people overestimate the pain users will go through to reach their services; iii) in a lot of businesses it's actually really _hard_ to advocate doing nothing - no new features, no further investment, no changes. So something is done because something seems better than nothing, and thuse the product slowly accumulates cruft.
- mercer 9y agoYeah, I've had similar experience. But never to the point of making a website entirely unusable on mobile (which is pretty easy to test for...).
- scarface74 9y agoWhy not use an ad blocker for iOS? They've been supported natively for awhile.