YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we'll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I'd watch a gif.

The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like "The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]" and here, when you need it, there's never an option for "remind me later". So you either have to stop what you're doing and go and read a massive blog entry that's not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it's actually relevant

Linux/FreeBSD and piracy are like the only way to mostly avoid this crap now lol.

Every shopping site now wants you to sign up for some kind of discount or offer as well.

Instead of "No thanks" or "No, I don't want to subscribe", the reject button always says "No, I want to pay full price" or "No, I don't like savings" and other manipulative bs.

Makes me not want to shop there.

This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.

Should we start refering to pop-ups that give no option to say "no" as something like "rape-ups"?

I've also felt the "impossible to say no" lingo is awful. "remind me later" fuck off

We need a community! I am really annoyed by this, it is rapey and gaslighting and abusive. Another one they started to do is "You are almost finished with your updates", updates that i didn't request nor allow.

We need words, customized pitchforks and a leader to recover dignity!

Yes! It really is that. Just like how so many men are taught to never take "no" as an answer from a woman, and to keep pestering her until she gives in.