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PaulHoule • yesterday at 8:49 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

We’ve got to start using the word “harassment” to describe common user interface tropes such as excessively complex login systems (funny the people who are experts at logging into your account without your permissions absolutely thrive in this environment), cookie popups, cloudflare popups, etc.

I dunno how much of this comes out of being based in the Bay Area where it is normalized that you’ll stay in your conference hotel and never leave the arcology because otherwise you’ll get harassed. I wonder if people realize that you could go to like Ohio or something and it doesn’t have to be that way.