I hate websites that talk to me

[Grits]

I know! And I'm still old school. I prefer to READ articles etc. instead of watching a video. I hate it when I click on a link to something and realize that it is a video - unless I purposely did it because I need to see a tutorial or something.

[Dogmama]

I know! And I'm still old school. I prefer to READ articles etc. instead of watching a video. I hate it when I click on a link to something and realize that it is a video - unless I purposely did it because I need to see a tutorial or something.

ME TOO! I thought I was the only one in the world that hates videos. Especially when you get 15 seconds of commercials first. I'm totally like you - I just watch you-tubes that I might need to see how something is done. And that is rarely.

Since we're on the subject (and I'm showing my age) I hate icons. What ever happened to English? Is this why our youth is illiterate? Will we be giving SAT's using icons soon?

I miss DOS

[Crankin]

I just don't click if it's a video!
I also hate icons because most of the time I don't get what it stands for. The common ones, yes, but I seem to have some kind of learning issue with this. I finally learned the icons for Japenese cars and then when I got a European car, I was flummoxed. The second German car, well, I don't use half of the things in my car because I have no idea what to do. And looking at a pic in the book does not help as I can't remember the symbol unless it's something I use a lot. This is not old age, I've always had no visual memory for meaningless symbols. Give me words!

[ny biker]

ME TOO! I thought I was the only one in the world that hates videos. Especially when you get 15 seconds of commercials first. I'm totally like you - I just watch you-tubes that I might need to see how something is done. And that is rarely.

Since we're on the subject (and I'm showing my age) I hate icons. What ever happened to English? Is this why our youth is illiterate? Will we be giving SAT's using icons soon?

I miss DOS

I had to search for and bookmark an internet page that explains laundry care icons. They are so utterly meaningless and non-intuitive.

[OakLeaf]

I had to search for and bookmark an internet page that explains laundry care icons. They are so utterly meaningless and non-intuitive.

Ah, but at least they're universal. I have a top I got in Italy, that came with a label literally four inches long, printed on both sides with care instructions in I don't know how many languages. As uncomfortable as it is, I left it in because it's so funny! That's the alternative to having to look up the less-common icons a few times until we remember them ...



And, sometimes it isn't obvious that a link goes to a video. But with a Flash blocker, I find out before it tries to load.

[Helene2013]

+1 for me too hating videos that starts when not asked for. Sometimes you happen to read on a page and paf! A video starts somewhere else on that page. Then you "panick" trying to shut it and nothing works. So now I gave up and my sound on my laptop is always at "off". If I need it, I crank it up a notch or more. And those ads that they ad before and are louder than the video itself. My pet peeve. argggh