a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you feel about floating share buttons on websites?

I hate them so much that when I encounter one, I open another tab to try and find a Chrome plugin to kill them. Then I fail to find one and close the tab with the floating menu, then open another tab, do the search again and then avoid the purple links. I will occasionally even tell Google to "block results from..." because fuck your floating tab.

You have a page, not a page with an overlay that demands my attention every time I scroll. I'll read your page... but the minute you dangle shit in front of it I'm out.





CleverSurveys  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mind if I ask why you hate them so much? This is assuming they don't cover the content at all (I wouldn't do that). Even if they're beside the content, do you find them too distracting? Too difficult to focus on the content?

kleinbl00  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I'm reading your content, I'm reading your content.

If I'm reading your content and your social fruit salad follows me around, I'm reading LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! UPVOTE US ON REDDIT! RETWEET US! POST US ON LINKEDIN, WE'RE NOT SURE WHY, BUT DO IT! LOVE US, LOVE US, LOVE US! OVER HERE! OVER HERE! TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS! PLEASE GOD GIVE US CLICKS! NO, NO, STOP LOOKING AT THE WRITING, WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT ALL THAT LOREM IPSUM BULLSHIT WE WANT CLICKS! MORE CLICKS! MORE CLICKS!

and fuck that.