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Please Verify: An Obstacle Course of Web UX Hell
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Please Verify: An Obstacle Course of Web UX Hell

via Dev.toJon Watts9h ago

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built Please Verify is a satirical single-page web app disguised as a legitimate SaaS verification system — clean design, professional fonts, a fake browser chrome — that traps you in an endless loop of the internet's most infuriating UX patterns. It looks like a real product. It has trust badges. It says "Secure. Simple. Streamlined." It is none of these things. 🔗 Live demo: https://please-verify-app.web.app 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/watts4/please-verify The gauntlet, in order: Cookie Consent (×4) — Four rounds of increasingly unhinged cookie categories. Round 4 includes "Void Telemetry" ("The void remembers. The void consents on your behalf.") and "Final Form Data Collection" ("Acceptance is non-reversible across all planes of existence."). All categories must be accepted to continue. Every time. Age Verification (animal years) — Select your spirit animal and calculate your age in that animal's measurement system. Dog:

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