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They do that because they know human nature (well, post-popup windows from the '90s) is to move your mouse down to close the popup and then close the tab, as if
by byuu 7y ago
They do that because they know human nature (well, post-popup windows from the '90s) is to move your mouse down to close the popup and then close the tab, as if it makes any difference. That buys them another 2-4 seconds of time-spent-on-page analytics metrics. It took me a bit to untrain myself from that behavior. I'd quite like a browser extension that stops reporting when my mouse moves out of the tab.
- anigbrowl 7y ago[Reply unprintable in this family-friendly forum]
- boring_twenties 7y agoHow about just not reporting mouse movements to the website at all?
- st1ck 7y agoOr just press Ctrl-W?
- anigbrowl 7y agoHere's the thing, why should I need to keep changing my behavior to stay head of the advertisers? On some websites I interact primarily through the keyboard, but on others I use the mouse because I'm doing a lot of scrolling highlighting.