Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with banners and popups
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites with banners and popups, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 5 complaints
- Back button closes a modal instead of returning to the previous page2025-11-03
- Printed pages are unreadable because banners and popups are not hidden in print2022-05-04
- Giant banner can't be closed and article is cut off to force signup2022-04-21
- Must click through overlays and cookie prompts before reading content2020-06-22
- Page content shifts down and then jumps just as user is about to click2011-07-05