Oh, I’ve got a perfect example of a ‘Fuck You’ pattern in the wild, and it’s served with a side of ‘user gas-lighting’. The gun.deals app, (specifically the iO

Oh, I’ve got a perfect example of a ‘Fuck You’ pattern in the wild, and it’s served with a side of ‘user gas-lighting’. The gun.deals app, (specifically the iOS version, though I suspect android is engineered the same way), is your typical design of stacked rows of links for deals on, you guessed it, gun stuff. As with these apps, the user scrolls down the list by dragging their finger upward. Except on gun.deals, the app will [intentionally] misinterpret the first contact of the finger as a ‘click’ on the row item. This causes the user to have to back out of the item they had intended to scroll past. (While almost certainly delivering fraudulently obtained ‘impressions’ that the app maker can represent to advertisers and vendors they are selling data and screen share to).