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For years YouTubes top hero banner purposely loaded quite a bit later than the rest of the page. I never noticed it, until I moved to Spain for a while. Our pl
by nwienert 4y ago
For years YouTubes top hero banner purposely loaded quite a bit later than the rest of the page.
I never noticed it, until I moved to Spain for a while. Our place had slow internet, and I watched my roommates hit the ad multiple times a day on accident because it loaded right into where the search box was exactly as you’d naturally click there.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI have seen that kind of thing a few different places and I just plain decline to believe that it isn't done with knowledge. Active items that are already clickable that change location as a page loads drive me nuts, but these particularly convenient examples add another dimension to that.
- FeistySkink 4y agoMy banking app does that when doing a transfer, i.e new field appear depending on a receiver. It catches me off-guard every single time. Infuriating.
- Brian_K_White 4y agohah! 2 seconds later this is in my feed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765399
- ls15 4y agoIf it makes money, it was intentional
- dTal 4y agoIt might not be done with malice aforethought, so much as wilful ignorance; blind pursuit of metrics combined with a lack of any incentive to challenge the assumption that all clicks are intentional.
- imsaw 4y agoJust hit the / and go straight to the search bar (on a pc)