Nono.MA

Recurrent, unsolicited nudges

DECEMBER 22, 2025

Specific user experience patterns can make us hate parts of our favorite products and eventually lead us to dislike our core tools as much as we did.

One such pattern is the non-dismissable dismiss notice.

Gmail offered me the option to upgrade my personal email account to your-domain.com to level up. I clearly hit dismiss, because I'm not interested. In fact, I already own a Google Workspace account with my custom domain name, and they probably know. Yet that nagging nudge insists on reappearing every couple of days or weeks.

Annoying.

There's a workaround I've used on other occasions: using StyleBot or a similar CSS-editing browser extension to override a website's styling and hide specific components.

Another recurrent theme is YouTube insisting that I sign up for Revolut—but I already have, so what do they expect me to do?

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