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the internet
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 8 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Browsing is nearly unusable without ad blockingUnreviewed
20112026- Websites are unusable without ad blockers installed2024-11-11
- The internet has become unusable because of ad-driven content2024-05-15
- Browsing is nearly unusable without ad blocking2017-09-24
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Finds the web almost unusable on mobile devices2026-03-13
- Websites are unusable without ad blockers installed2024-11-11
- The internet has become unusable because of ad-driven content2024-05-15
- No natural stopping point, so people keep scrolling and clicking with little prompt to stop2021-12-18
- Browsing is nearly unusable without ad blocking2017-09-24
- Too many different interfaces, rules and quirks make the web hard to deal with2011-06-13