Ban the Throbber

No more relentless hourglass, no more endless toilet flush, no more spinning beach ball. May they all suffer endless guru meditation.

I don't universally dislike the Throbber, if that's what it's really called.

I have incredibly negative memories of the Netflix one, on cheap TVs with poor WiFi, which had a percentage which meant nothing.

It's used a lot in Android apps and it stresses me out on occasion when I'm in a rush.

Chromium on Android seems to use it well enough when reloading a page.

Often it feels like a jagged interruption in the application and like something is broken or out of place.

The throbber was the beginning of developers gaslighting users.

It began as an indicator during long loads that your system hadn't frozen (because whatever process was running had to update it), and became a useless animation that communicated nothing.

Why ban the symptom?

no more throbbing!