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That dark pattern where a website gives you the next article it thinks you should read does not work well here on this older article. Below the Lego article I g
by Freak_NL 5y ago
That dark pattern where a website gives you the next article it thinks you should read does not work well here on this older article. Below the Lego article I get “Hate math? Then don't help your kid with their homework” — which it proceeds to load hundreds of times (a search for the word 'homework' yields over 1000 hits now) below each iteration just because I tried to scroll to the bottom. Somehow its recommendation engine ended up recommending the same article, recursing endlessly.
Stupid me, why would I expect to be able to just scroll to the bottom of the article for the website's footer?
- kwhitefoot 5y agoAre your surfing without protection? Scrolling to the bottom for me works perfectly. I tried disabling uBlock, then I got the behaviour you mentioned. I always have uBlock on to disable scripts and fonts. Quite a lot of sites work perfectly well that way and I enable the minimum scripts and fonts for those that don't.
- toyg 5y agoA website optimizing itself for freeloaders rather than ad-watching users, seems... counterproductive for their bottom line.
- alexb_ 5y agoAlmost every single website, especially anything involving articles, is completely unusable without an adblocker. I don't know how those who don't use adblockers do it...
- dotancohen 5y agoI'm using uBlock Origin in Firefox, and I also got the infinite scroll on Math Homework article loop.