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My favorite is when the link you’re trying to open jumps away 1 nanosecond before you click on it and you wind up clicking something else entirely.

by thorum 5y ago

sneak 5y ago
This actually happens on the mobile website during the amazon.com one click checkout when you try to change your payment method. It's absolutely insane to me that they haven't fixed it yet.
yawnxyz 5y ago
Google does this by popping up a bunch of "related links" as soon as you're trying to click on the second link... I honestly thought all those well-paid engineers and UX designers who work there could make something better than that
- DarylZero 5y ago
  They get paid the big bucks to make it worse in the way that benefits the owner
- draw_down 5y ago
- bogwog 5y ago
  I wonder if that’s the same team responsible for making embedded youtube videos start playing on mobile safari if your finger touches it while you’re just trying to scroll. Aka, the Evil Department.
  - tobr 5y ago
    Yeah what’s up with that, it wasn’t like that mere weeks ago.
  - Dma54rhs 5y ago
    If video plays per page load is the metric the techbros of Google are what gets them promoted then you can be sure that's the reason behind it.
- nkozyra 5y ago
  This is so bad I refuse to believe it's inadvertent.
- giantrobot 5y ago
  > I honestly thought all those well-paid engineers and UX designers who work there could make something better than that Don't forget that you are not Google's customers. Their advertisers are their customers. You're just a product they sell. So the UX does exactly what it is supposed to do: get eyeballs on advertisements. Even if you click back at Google's scale inadvertent clicks are big money. Besides you seeing something advertised/promoted they got some free tracking data to sell. So long as whatever they linked to managed to load some tracking pixels or even full tracking scripts before you hit the back button that's more tracking data hoovered up. Even just the request for the resource is data for tracking purposes.
- jez 5y ago
  This is yet another reason why I’m glad to have switched away from using Google search. Not even for privacy/advertising/tracking considerations, just general quality of life things like being able to click the whole search result bounding box (not just the top link), never having to suffer with related links appearing on back navigation, no AMP pages, etc.
- democracy 5y ago
  I am sure they can fix it but the fix is going to bring the revenue down so some heads can get chopped. Who wants to put their CV "improved Google search results user experience by increasing the ad revenue by -3%"
8note 5y ago
I find the chrome android browser to be the worst for that. Not only does the page load new things, but google resizes everything just as you click

My favorite is when the link you’re trying to open jumps away 1 nanosecond before you click on it and you wind up clicking something else entirely.

by thorum 5y ago

My favorite is when the link you’re trying to open jumps away 1 nanosecond before you click on it and you wind up clicking something else entirely.

sneak 5y ago

This actually happens on the mobile website during the amazon.com one click checkout when you try to change your payment method. It's absolutely insane to me that they haven't fixed it yet.

yawnxyz 5y ago

Google does this by popping up a bunch of "related links" as soon as you're trying to click on the second link... I honestly thought all those well-paid engineers and UX designers who work there could make something better than that

DarylZero 5y ago
They get paid the big bucks to make it worse in the way that benefits the owner
draw_down 5y ago
bogwog 5y ago
I wonder if that’s the same team responsible for making embedded youtube videos start playing on mobile safari if your finger touches it while you’re just trying to scroll. Aka, the Evil Department.
- tobr 5y ago
  Yeah what’s up with that, it wasn’t like that mere weeks ago.
- Dma54rhs 5y ago
  If video plays per page load is the metric the techbros of Google are what gets them promoted then you can be sure that's the reason behind it.
nkozyra 5y ago
This is so bad I refuse to believe it's inadvertent.
giantrobot 5y ago
> I honestly thought all those well-paid engineers and UX designers who work there could make something better than that Don't forget that you are not Google's customers. Their advertisers are their customers. You're just a product they sell. So the UX does exactly what it is supposed to do: get eyeballs on advertisements. Even if you click back at Google's scale inadvertent clicks are big money. Besides you seeing something advertised/promoted they got some free tracking data to sell. So long as whatever they linked to managed to load some tracking pixels or even full tracking scripts before you hit the back button that's more tracking data hoovered up. Even just the request for the resource is data for tracking purposes.
jez 5y ago
This is yet another reason why I’m glad to have switched away from using Google search. Not even for privacy/advertising/tracking considerations, just general quality of life things like being able to click the whole search result bounding box (not just the top link), never having to suffer with related links appearing on back navigation, no AMP pages, etc.
democracy 5y ago
I am sure they can fix it but the fix is going to bring the revenue down so some heads can get chopped. Who wants to put their CV "improved Google search results user experience by increasing the ad revenue by -3%"

8note 5y ago

I find the chrome android browser to be the worst for that. Not only does the page load new things, but google resizes everything just as you click