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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] eddy_bola@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha I had the exact same reaction and made an almost identical screenshot of this eyecancer…

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why are you all on X/Twitter? It's utter trash, I just avoid the whole thing.

[–] eddy_bola@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I’m not on Twitter, or any social platform, but sometimes a link leads met to a post or an account. Et voilà!

[–] DanForever@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As evidenced by all the prompts, we aren't! But it's still the best place to get the latest info from some companies

As evidenced by the frequent posts to content from X, I think many still are.