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The TechCrunch mobile experience is just so infuriating. If you scroll even slightly too far past the last paragraph it does this ridiculous jump animation to t

The TechCrunch mobile experience is just so infuriating. If you scroll even slightly too far past the last paragraph it does this ridiculous jump animation to the next story and then you can’t scroll back up to re-read anything from the story you were just on.

tjoff 8y ago
And when running statistics they have data to support that this design is great because users apparently read more articles with it. The lack of common sense / shortsightedness in this industry is deafening. Speaking of which, this site uses oath and thus one of the most asinine GDPR-violations thought up by man.
larkeith 8y ago
I disabled Javascript in my mobile browser a year or so back for privacy reasons, and it's made my browsing experience much better - no more ads, subscription popups, or bloated pages that grind my phone's cpu to a crawl - and, of course, no more "helpful" mobile-specific behaviors. While I fairly frequently have to make exceptions for sites that are nonfunctional without JS (anything video-related, for example), I recommend trying it out. Of course, that does not excuse poor web design. Disclosure: I have a vested interest in getting more people to disable JS, as it means developers are more incentivized to design with us in mind.
- TremendousJudge 8y ago
  what browser do you use?
  - larkeith 8y ago
    Chrome for Android, though I've been considering swapping to Firefox, as I've heard good things about it - Chrome doesn't support any add-ons.
    - kitsunesoba 8y ago
      Last time I used Android it boggled my mind that mobile Chrome has zero support for addons. Even mobile Safari has addon support (albeit limited to content blockers and single-run scripts).
- vowelless 8y ago
  OMG, thank you for this! It has greatly improved my mobile browsing experience. For chrome on Android, go to setting -> site setting -> JavaScript and then disable it.
  - larkeith 8y ago
    (This is also where you can add exceptions to allow Javascript, or block it for specific sites if you'd prefer to leave it enabled in general.)
spdustin 8y ago
It really is. On iOS I use 1Blocker X [0], which does a pretty good job of cleaning most of it up; I added a rule to block loading the infinite scrolling-like script on TC that auto-loads the next article. [0] 1Blocker X by Salavat Khanov https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8

tjoff 8y ago

And when running statistics they have data to support that this design is great because users apparently read more articles with it. The lack of common sense / shortsightedness in this industry is deafening. Speaking of which, this site uses oath and thus one of the most asinine GDPR-violations thought up by man.

larkeith 8y ago

I disabled Javascript in my mobile browser a year or so back for privacy reasons, and it's made my browsing experience much better - no more ads, subscription popups, or bloated pages that grind my phone's cpu to a crawl - and, of course, no more "helpful" mobile-specific behaviors. While I fairly frequently have to make exceptions for sites that are nonfunctional without JS (anything video-related, for example), I recommend trying it out. Of course, that does not excuse poor web design. Disclosure: I have a vested interest in getting more people to disable JS, as it means developers are more incentivized to design with us in mind.

TremendousJudge 8y ago
what browser do you use?
- larkeith 8y ago
  Chrome for Android, though I've been considering swapping to Firefox, as I've heard good things about it - Chrome doesn't support any add-ons.
  - kitsunesoba 8y ago
    Last time I used Android it boggled my mind that mobile Chrome has zero support for addons. Even mobile Safari has addon support (albeit limited to content blockers and single-run scripts).
vowelless 8y ago
OMG, thank you for this! It has greatly improved my mobile browsing experience. For chrome on Android, go to setting -> site setting -> JavaScript and then disable it.
- larkeith 8y ago
  (This is also where you can add exceptions to allow Javascript, or block it for specific sites if you'd prefer to leave it enabled in general.)

spdustin 8y ago

It really is. On iOS I use 1Blocker X [0], which does a pretty good job of cleaning most of it up; I added a rule to block loading the infinite scrolling-like script on TC that auto-loads the next article. [0] 1Blocker X by Salavat Khanov https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8