Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Do not put up with sites that disrespect you with NOISE-MAKING, AUTO-PLAYING SHIT.

Nobody should give sites a free pass when they blast you with noise upon arrival. How spineless do you have to be to argue that it's OK for some assholes to wake your companion, disturb your coworkers, or otherwise disrupt your space with unauthorized noise?

And yet that's what sniveling apologists do in forum after forum.  But let's start with the perpetrators.

Like ABC News.  These jagoffs continue to blast readers with auto-playing shit, despite being told over and over not to do so.  What do these infants do after they're reprimanded for their bad behavior?  BAN the people who have the gall to stand up for themselves:


Fortune magazine is another prime offender.  They're such spineless twats that they've gotten rid of their comment sections altogether.  Complain directly to their staff, and they don't have the guts to respond.  Ever.  Tell them off here.

Here's a list of offensive Web sites that call you stupid to your face while bombarding you and everyone around you with their unauthorized shit:

HuffingtonPost.com
TheHill.com
ABCNews.com
CBSNews.com
CNet.com



I don't have time to catalog all of these assholes right now, so please submit any that you find, in the comments.

Google also deserves blame.  These hypocrites threatened a couple of years ago to "punish" sites that aren't "mobile-friendly;" and yet Google discriminates against mobile users by disabling zooming on the mobile versions of its own pages.

So why doesn't Google punish sites that abuse readers by blasting them with noise?  Google is supposedly taking the step of disabling this crap in Chrome, but why mask the behavior instead of addressing it directly?  Abusing your readers should cost you dearly, and yet Google shows its cowardice by failing to to take a stand against this abuse.