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Websites with custom CSS
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites with custom CSS, 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 6 complaints
- Sites are horribly broken when CSS is disabled, so users can't read or use them2023-10-26
- Sites override user text size and colours, and pages become unreadable with styles turned off2023-04-14
- Many sites become unusable with screen readers due to CSS styling2019-02-07
- Long lines of text are hard to read on wide browser windows2015-08-28
- Custom page styling makes links and content impossible to see, so the user strips it with bookmarklets2015-04-06
- Site's flashy custom selection color makes highlighting text as you read painful2010-12-20