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That "In case you're not aware, there's COVID-19 happening" banner isn't nearly tall nor yellow enough. Given a 6-inch-tall screen, the proper layout would be:

jasonjayr 2mo ago
It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.
- pbhjpbhj 2mo ago
  Clever people with no morals use that to load ads under your finger, timed to create an inadvertent click. I swear NYT do this in their games app, the play button gets replaced with a subscribe as the late loaded subscribe element shifts the page exactly the amount to put subscribe under your finger. I wonder how well it worked?
  - bartread 2mo ago
    Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick. Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst. The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads. So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense? The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.
    - inigyou 2mo ago
      Programmers tend to think rules are actually rules, because if you don't follow the rules on a computer then it won't work. But rules in politics and capitalism are primarily a manipulation technique. They state as a fact what they want you to think is fact, not what is actually a fact.
- monknomo 2mo ago
  manually scrolling before every widget loads should cause a full page refresh. zooming in should cause a full page refresh

jasonjayr 2mo ago

It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.

pbhjpbhj 2mo ago
Clever people with no morals use that to load ads under your finger, timed to create an inadvertent click. I swear NYT do this in their games app, the play button gets replaced with a subscribe as the late loaded subscribe element shifts the page exactly the amount to put subscribe under your finger. I wonder how well it worked?
- bartread 2mo ago
  Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick. Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst. The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads. So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense? The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.
  - inigyou 2mo ago
    Programmers tend to think rules are actually rules, because if you don't follow the rules on a computer then it won't work. But rules in politics and capitalism are primarily a manipulation technique. They state as a fact what they want you to think is fact, not what is actually a fact.
monknomo 2mo ago
manually scrolling before every widget loads should cause a full page refresh. zooming in should cause a full page refresh