Website annoyances
When I click on a link on IMDB, it opens another window with an advert in. Not content with that, when i follow another link, it'll open another window, even if I don't close the first advert. It'll keep on opening windows on nearly every link.

Another is eBay with their "Keep me signed in for today" which never works.

What website 'features' do you find annoying?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:37, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The IMDB
pop ups are well annoying :(

Other website annoyances - Kaol
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:40, Reply)

We have to call him Mr.K now
keep saying it so that he can't search his username anymore.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:41, Reply)

But surely
then he will just search for Mr. K?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44, Reply)

Yeah :D

( Cawl, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44, Reply)

More like
Special K.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:11, Reply)

I just search both.

( Cawl, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44, Reply)

Shoobedoo.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:53, Reply)

Pop up advertsing is annoying
I usually try wikipedia before IMDB because I hate the pop ups so much.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:41, Reply)

why not try a popup blocker?
I didn't even realise imdb had them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:43, Reply)

I use them at home but I can't install addons at work,
or on my work laptop.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44, Reply)

fair enough
we're quite lucky with the freedom we have on our work computers.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:47, Reply)

If you're a Firefox type
then I heartily recommend AdBlock Plus as an add-on. It's saved me no end of annoyance and got rid of nearly all the pop-ups. (Don't know if there's anything similar available for IE or Safari) It also speeds up a lot of pages which would otherwise have their loading time increased exponentially by the obscene amounts of adverts on them.

I can also feel like I'm "sticking it to the man" when I log in to tinker with my band's myspaz page, given that they make all their money from advertising which I don't have to look at! Ha! In your face, Murdoch!
/glares defiantly and shakes fist
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:01, Reply)

Gmail
I log in, leave it to load and go and surf another site... then once it's loaded, it pops up instead of just staying in the background. Who on earth thought this would be a good idea?
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:03, Reply)

I was going to post this!
Also on gmail/IE:

When I load the login page at work (on IE unforunately), I immediately start typing in my username, tab, then password.

However for some incredulous reason the page forces my typing cursor into the password box instead of the login box? So I end up typing my username into the pass box. It's bizarre and frankly uncalled for.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Those fucking talking smileys, emoticons or whatever the smeg they are
I'm trying to play Facebook Scrabble all sneaky and that in the office
when suddenly there's a a huge 'helloooooo' coming from my machine
because I'd accidentally dragged the cursor over the advert.
Totally blew my cover.

Cunts.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:57, Reply)

I use IE6 at work and it has a built-in pop-up blocker that stops those.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 11:29, Reply)