Heads up: Turning off the "graphical previews"

[matgb]

There are some people that like "snap previews". They like annoying, bandwidth hogging javascript pop ups that come up when your mouse passes a link[2]. I'm not one of them. You might be, and if so I can, when I've time, rant at great length about why they degrade the user experience, clutter the web and really don't actually help in any way.

Comments

[frightened]

It does rather raise the question: if they're that convinced they'll be popular, why aren't they foisting them on the paying customers?

Generally, you can tell whether it's a feature or a pain in the ass by whether they give it to the paid or basic users first.

[matgb]

Precisely. They know most won't turn them off, or realise how to, so can figure it'll be a revenue stream across the board, which is just nasty. We're not users any more, we're eyeballs for ads. Gah!

[morgaine_x]

Thanks for pointing that out - duly switched off. I was getting annoyed and suddenly realized that was what you meant...

[ladyegreen]

Thanks, I turned it off.

That's just crazy isn't it? I'm not crazy about gizmos for the sake of gizmos. I've been very staunch about not running off to set up another account elsewhere but it would be very nice if they would allow people to have streamlined accounts without all these useless things they keep adding.

[matgb]

But then they can't make money from the adverts in the useless things :-(

[ex_susumu64]

They are the stupidest thing ever. Well done LJ.

[matgb]

I've never got why site owners like and use them, but now I do-ad revenue embedded in something "useful" to the user. Ah well.

[spacecowb0y]

I also did a little post that ejects Snap Shots permanently. :)

http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html