Webs Annoyance of the Week - Pop-ups Demanding Visitors Register
Today I was visiting a website, Diversity Inc. with the intention of writing it up as a cool website of the day. Instead, it is an example of the annoyance of the week: websites that hide basic content behind very annoying pop-ups. It is understandable that a site would want people to register and participate in their community, however confronting new visitors with a huge pop-up saying “Want to avoid pop-ups?” is not likely to win over any potential members. Website developers might want to think about following the model of some newspapers, which serve an invitation to register after someone has clicked on a certain amount of articles, (usually three to five). I find pop-ups annoying in general and the new crop which are able to get around Firefox’s filters are really bad.
Take a look at the screen shot below of the site I was checking out tonight. I left after realizing that the pop-up could not be cleared without registering. Worse, the pop-up “followed me” around the screen making it impossible to read anything.
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