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Pinterest may be the most annoying, but by far not the only ones who try to coax you into signing up. The most annoying for me is Facebook because of the many b
by rob74 5y ago
Pinterest may be the most annoying, but by far not the only ones who try to coax you into signing up. The most annoying for me is Facebook because of the many businesses that are too lazy or cheap to have a proper homepage and put up a "public" Facebook page instead. Well guess what: if you're not signed in to Facebook, you get an obnoxious "sign in or sign up" popup on these pages which you can't dismiss completely, it will stick to the bottom of your browser window and take up valuable screen real estate...
- xtracto 5y agoNowadays more than ever, is a good time to bring back services like Bugmenot.com which allow you to share credentials login for nagging websites that block their content behind a signup paywall.
- dredmorbius 5y agoLoathe though I am to say anything positive about Facebook: I don't find my general Web search results overly spammed with Facebook pages, whether accessible or not. Facebook seems to me to be actively search-hostile (it has no sitemaps pages --- there are none listed at https://facebook.com/robots.txt https://facebook.com/robots.txt), and returns relatively few web search results compared to its alleged size (5 billion submissions per day last I heard). That's ... in marked contrast to Pinterest, which actively solicits SEO and is overwhelmingly prevalent in image search results.