HACKER Q&A
📣 Lxr

Would you pay for a tool to fix UX antipatterns on the web?


Hi HN,

I'm constantly frustrated by the amount of annoying things websites do. Useless cookie and privacy notices, ads disguised as content, use-our-app walls, clickbait designed for "engagement", AMP and so on.

I'd like to build something to help users browse the web more efficiently. The closest thing I know of is uBlock Origin with handmade filters e.g. https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances, but this doesn't really solve the problem as I'd like (or maybe it can't due to API restrictions).

Is this something you'd use and/or pay for?


  👤 Nextgrid Accepted Answer ✓
I’d pay good money ($100/month?) for proper reimplementations of official social media and messaging clients without the user-hostile features.

I actually want some services in app form but currently can’t have that because the official apps are malicious.