Peeve

[pecunium]

I hate Snap.com.

I don't mean dilike. I mean hate, as in wish it would sink beneath the waves, never to rise again.

Why? Because it interferes with my reading. It slows my machine. It distracts me; and it (for the way I use the web) hinders my use of the web.

When I see a link, I mouse to it, so I can see the address. But people who embed snap then block large chunks of the page I'm reading; and while it's polling to find that miserable little snapshot of illegible presentation it's stealing packet slices which are (more often than not, looking for other things in the background).

If I want to spend the time/energy to look at the page, I click the damned link.

I guess what pisses me off it that it's forced on me. I can't opt out.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I've never noticed it.

Maybe someone will come up with a firefox extension like AdBlock, but more of a SnapBlock.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

As I don't know of / use any sites that have that, I haven't tested this, however:

http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/593

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Me, TOO. Nuke 'em from orbit.

[elf]

I've only seen it once--in the blog of someone who was bitching about how stupid, pathetic, and poorly-written all of modern science fiction is, and therefore what pathetic losers all modern fans are.

I drew my own conclusions about what kind of person would use such a service.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about that thing that pops up miniature 'previews' of a webpage when you accidentally mouse over a link?

I hate that thing, too. I might try that Firefox solution.