Internet Hates

10 thoughts on “Internet Hates”

1. Top Hates

   Hate #1: When people self-promote by writing on their own blog about how they Google a topic and their blog just happens to come up first because it SOOOOO popular.

   Hate #2: The snotty-ass friends of the blog host who make smarmy comments on the blog because they’re trying to avoid doing real work.

   Hate #3: The fact that Cnnsi has built it’s entire site around chasing ESPN.

   Hate #4: Bittorrent is over.

   Hate #5: When media companies lay goose egg imposters on torrent sites.

   Hate #6: When they tell you that your maximum downloaded speed is 500KB/sec and the most you’ve ever experienced is 75KB/sec.

   Hate #7: The fact that the government won’t endow me with a static IP address of my choice.

   1. Smarmy

      You are smarmy… you speak more truth than you know 🙂

      I figured out my bizarrely high Google rankings, though, and it has much less to do with the authority of my posts than the way Drupal syndicates stuff. I fear it will get nerfed by the Google Gods, and then Heaven Forbid, there goes my buck-a-day from Google Adsense…

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

   2. Bittorrent lives!!

      Though I MYSELF.. have NEVER used it..

2. Pop-up This!

   1) When I visit a page looking for legitimate information (like the deleted Natalie Portman scenes from ‘Closer’) and it tries to install software and 40,000 pop-ups appear.

   2) Forced registration. Why make me bother, when we both know you’re not getting my real name or email address? Just let me download the d*mn software

   3) Non-compliant web pages that don’t say they’re non-compliant. If you want to get fancy on the DHTML tip and use IE-specific coding, at least TELL me! I hate when you put your DIV tag over text I’m trying to read.

   4) When I type into my location bar http://www.micorsotf.com

   and I get porn. The computer should KNOW what I meant.

   5) When support sites cost money. I bought your product, why should I have to pay you to help me use it? Especially when it’s your fault it isn’t working?

   My $.02 Weed

   1. That domain!

      That domain’s free! I just checked the whois at register.com. I should register it and put up Google ads for… umm, my site. Or something.

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

      1. Better Yet

         If you were to put up an truly intuitive support website for Microsoft products there, you could make a killing! Being how there’s not one anywhere around that domain currently 😉

         My $.02 Weed

   2. Eliminate ads

      Get AdblockPlus (and the companion filter component) as your next Firefox add-on. Beyond pop-up ads, eliminating the embedded, obnoxious-Flash-to-the-11th-power-of-processing-power-suck ads makes loading pages so much faster.

3. Registering To Read The News

   I hate registering an account to read news articles online. Thankfully, bugmenot is still providing valid work-arounds.

   1. Retail Coupon Codes

      I hate when you order something online, and right before you click ‘yes’ on the final price, the shopping system asks if you have an online discount code. Of course I don’t have a code. Thanks for letting me know everyone else on the planet is saving 15%.

      (Solution: retailmenot.com)

      1. Nice link!

         Thanks for that link! The one place I’ve consistently applied coupons is buying things from Dell.com. There was a time when you could save over 50% on a new computer and accessories by “stacking” coupons. Sadly they closed that loophole, but it was nice getting $700 worth of camera equipment for $300 at one time.

         —
         Matthew P. Barnson

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