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Do you equally dislike everything in the header, right rail, left rail, and footer on every single webpage? Does processing the top bar of hn take away from you
by soared 7y ago
Do you equally dislike everything in the header, right rail, left rail, and footer on every single webpage? Does processing the top bar of hn take away from your pool of mental resources?
I don’t want to be a dick but this argument lacks weight. Does your brain work less effectively when it’s cloudy, since it takes mental resources to see clouds rather than clear sky?
- elefanten 7y agoAll the things you reference serve a purpose for the user. There's a whole field about how to design them, etc. Ads are not designed or deployed to serve the user. Are you seriously saying the average ad you see is optimized to provide you useful information? When did you last see a Tide commercial cite the studies that showed it cleans the best? Ads are designed, bought, placed and engineered to interrupt your thought process and direct it elsewhere, then present information that's optimized to make you remember and select that product. Sometimes (in proportion, rarely) that information happens to be useful, but it was still presented in via psychosocial dark patterns.