ZDNet

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with ZDNet, 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 4 complaints

Popups and an auto-playing video with sound interrupt reading the article2025-10-31
Page is cluttered with ads and content jumps while scrolling, making it hard to read2025-01-13
Back button takes many presses to return to the previous site2018-12-10
Whole-page background ad gets clicked accidentally while reading2013-01-25