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Website Wiggle
engrguy42:
Okay, I totally get that companies hosting websites need to make money in order to provide the website service. No problem. They do news, or weather, or whatever, and that takes money to run just like anything else.
But has anyone else noticed the (fairly new?) "website wiggle", where when you go to a website it seems that someone has included an algorithm to ensure that the page does this annoying up/down wiggle, apparently to ensure that when you click on something of interest it jumps at just the right time to ensure your click lands on an ad?
I'm curious what that algorithm looks like. Yeah it's hidden under the natural loading of images and ads and stuff, but it's getting so that I can't click on anything of interest without the page jiggling so that my click hits an ad.
I've pretty much given up on most news websites, other than to check the front page headlines. And weather websites have become all about making sure you click on an ad, and all of these OMG THE SKY IS FALLING forecasts that rarely come true.
Anyone remember when TV ads were nice and predictable and you could get up and grab something to eat? :D
In any case, I'd be interested to see if anyone knows what they add to their code to make this happen.
madires:
Have a look at the website's JavaScript code.
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on April 10, 2020, 11:40:50 am ---Anyone remember when TV ads were nice and predictable and you could get up and grab something to eat? :D
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I remember when tv stations would show a series of ads and almost always the last one would be an ad for one of their shows. Made it much easier to fast forward the VCR through the ads to the last one back in the day.
Domagoj T:
I have noticed on several occasions, just after loading a page and just as I click something that another bit loads and I missclick, but after that one missclick it doesn't do that any more. I always assumed that the ad banner just didn't load in time and that I was not patient enough. I always attributed it to shitty design, as opposed to asshole design. :-//
Can you give us an example of one such website?
engrguy42:
--- Quote from: Domagoj T on April 10, 2020, 12:09:09 pm ---I have noticed on several occasions, just after loading a page and just as I click something that another bit loads and I missclick, but after that one missclick it doesn't do that any more. I always assumed that the ad banner just didn't load in time and that I was not patient enough. I always attributed it to shitty design, as opposed to asshole design. :-//
Can you give us an example of one such website?
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Yeah, I can give examples, but as you may know one of the great universal truths is that when other people try the ones I reference they won't have the same problem. Guaranteed. Kinda like when you have a problem and call a technician, when he gets there the problem doesn't happen :D
Anyway, any of the big news sites (not sure about CNN...), weather sites like wunderground, and honestly just about any other major info/entertainment website.
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