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jasonjayr | on: Every Fucking Website (2020)
It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.
pbhjpbhj | parent | next
Clever people with no morals use that to load ads under your finger, timed to create an inadvertent click.

I swear NYT do this in their games app, the play button gets replaced with a subscribe as the late loaded subscribe element shifts the page exactly the amount to put subscribe under your finger. I wonder how well it worked?

bartread | root | parent
Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick.

Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst.

The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads.

So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense?

The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.

monknomo | parent
manually scrolling before every widget loads should cause a full page refresh.

zooming in should cause a full page refresh