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"When was the last time you were about to click a button on a website, only to have the page shift—causing you to click the wrong button instead?" On mobile Tw
by k__ 3y ago
"When was the last time you were about to click a button on a website, only to have the page shift—causing you to click the wrong button instead?"
On mobile Twitter/X it happens every time I reload the page.
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- bonestamp2 3y agoYa, basically every site where they load inline advertisements of an unknown height (or maybe they intentionally leave the height out of the CSS so you accidentally click on the ad).
- tracker1 3y agoI have to think it's often intentional... It's the most annoying thing tapping/clicking and then the ad url comes up instead of what you were expecting.
- bensecure 3y agoThey added a neat feature recently where they have a popup asking you something stupid, with a button you have to click to hide it. Then, exactly as the page seems loaded enough for you to attempt tapping the button, a new popup appears from google asking if you want to share your google account with twitter, with the "agree" button in the exact position of the previous button. It didn't work on me, but seems like a pretty cool doxx nonetheless.
- jes5199 3y agoone time I worked at a company that shipped an app with a version of this bug that caused people to charge money to the wrong individual, because sometimes the buttons would shuffle right before the click