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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by dheera on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:58AM (#13442128)
Also, e-commerce websites that require creation of an account to buy something. There were countless times that I had a credit card in hand, and I gave up when the stupid website required me to register a user account in order to pay and check out.

Extra negative points if your account creation process requires a phone number or e-mail address verification step.

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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by fancy_pantser on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:07AM (#13442156)
Just like the "$300m button story" popular in UX circles: https://articles.uie.com/three_hund_million_button/
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by nommm-nommm on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:31AM (#13443315)
Totally.

A good e-commerce site will give you the option of creating an account only at the end of checkout and the account is totally optional. I've seen it before but unfortunately it's not the majority.

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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by zimpenfish on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:38AM (#13443662)
Also also e-commerce sites which don't carry your basket over from non-logged-in to logged-in states (ie you start shopping, then remember to login before checking out.)
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