Except for when you go to try and click that tiny x, only to find that there was an intentionally coded delay for another ad just above it that pushed the x lower on the page, so you end up clicking that other ad.
Or if you go to tap close but at that exact point an image finishes downloading, reflowing the page and moving the close button elsewhere so you end up clicking the ad. Grrr.
Nice and to the point. I clicked on the "..." bubble out of curiousity, and it brought up some ad, which is fine. When I went to leave by hitting back, the ad came up again. I had to hit back again to close it, then back to come here. Just FYI.
Some folks use this fact to place ads in such way that when you want to click something by the time your finger taps the screen there is an ad underneath. So annoying.
Even more annoying is when ads pop in a second or so later under the cursor position just before you click, taking you to the ad not what you wanted to click.
>who, while waiting to get into or out of garage, sitting in the car or soon to be sitting in the car clicks on ads to buy something? Wouldn't conversion rates be ridiculous?
This reddit thread says it uses a UI dark pattern of moving the "open/close button" from a familiar screen position formed by habitual use such that you accidentally click on an ad for a $3000 pet door:
Yeah, that closure was completely uncommented and mysterious. A later comment linked to a bug saying that the ad had been disabled, presumably because it was showing up where it shouldn't? WORKSFORME doesn't seem like the right resolution for that.
I recently encountered an ad with a tiny close button that jittered, making it impossible to touch without triggering the ad popup. How clever.
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