Web annoyances

[pirohost]

Have you ever visited a website in search of information that you really needed or just wanted to sign up for some information, or for a news letter or something then all of a sudden comes "please type in the first 3 letters that you see" or what's 1+1" or even "what color is displayed in the box below"....

I don't know about anyone else but these little security questions, verification thingies are very annoying.

Images verification, and mystery questions the MOST annoying things that you can run into on the web....

I do understand it's to stop spam but sheesh...., It's like every year there is something new, when XP came out almost EVERY website had to have a rollover menu like XP, and then came "you MUST install this to view our website, or you must view this website in IE.X.X.X. in able to view this website" and things just headed down hill from there.....

What's your worst web annoyance I would really like to know if anything can be more annoying than the verification fields.

[Tree]

401, 404, 443, 500, 553

[Kwek]

401, 404, 443, 500, 553
Hey true!

I don't like those sites that only allow certain browsers, can't they just spend time to make it work for all browsers?

[Jan]

I don't know about anyone else but these little security questions, verification thingies are very annoying.
I'd rather take a few seconds for verification than clean up the mess a gazillion bots can make.

[Kwek]

I'd rather take a few seconds for verification than clean up the mess a gazillion bots can make.
Agreed, the verification are mostly fast anyway.

[Tatzel]

I don't like "optimized for YYYY and [insert big---- resolution here]" websites. Even if I have been using relatively big---- resolutions screens myself. There are really, really very few sites with so much that really needs to be displayed or layouts with such artistic merit that they deserve having to horizontal-scroll to read properly on, say, a 800*600 screen without the bookmarks window on the side.

I don't like expired domain explotation that stealth-dumps you to someplace else of no relevance, or serves you some fake search engine filled to the eyes with ad links.

I don't like how so much of the internet real espace is filled with search-engine-scamming gobbledygook, or how any unprotected areas that allows visitors to interact is instantly filled with links and ads that NO ONE is interested in.

[bigperm]

I get about 100x more spam on my blog than actual readers. So I support all captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) if it stops that.

[TSO]

My biggest annoyance is those stupid Flash ads that take over your screen! :eek:

[Matt8]

Background music is my #1 by far. Makes me want to punch my monitors

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

Websites that redirect to myspace pages are very annoying. Myspace is poorly laid out, has terrible backgrouds and templates, and they always have some sort of music on myspace pages.

[Kwek]

Background music is my #1 by far. Makes me want to punch my monitors
Yeah background music is pretty annoying too.

Most of the time I will turn off my speakers or just close the site directly when I hear background music.

[moneyballs2]

Captcha is good.

But sometimes they are so hard to read. And then you have to refresh the page and sometimes enter all the data in again if you didn't notice the captcha until the end. Also sometimes the captcha doesn't show. But it all stops spam bots.

I avoid myspace at all costs :p The background music is annoying if your listening to your own music. And as Galaxy-Host said the layout is hideous, especially when it has "Free Myspace Resources" pasted all over the place.

[Tree]

When people don't capitalize the 'M' in MySQL or say 'a CMS System'

[Keagle]

I hate "Plug-in Content". I cba to download a Plug-in for something. Makes me leave straight away.

[Kwek]

But sometimes they are so hard to read.

Like UNI.CC? Furthermore, their captcha is buggy too.