Please stop with the floating elements on websites. They're hiding your content, and make me want to leave!
No, I don't want to "swipe to the next article" if there's also gonna be a giant floating a...
@nprofile1q...
I've never understood the annoying "strobes & sirens" design concept behind such practices.
Cory Doctorow points out that it's a design choice intended to falsely amplify clicks for the fat-fingered economy. Advertisers & readers get cheated using such tactics.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-05-02-kpis-off-principal-agentic-ai-problem-e7ed8810a990
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/15/the-fatfinger-economy/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
I used to just print the article just to read a static version without the visual distractions but the print icon has been removed.
I've never understood the annoying "strobes & sirens" design concept behind such practices.
Cory Doctorow points out that it's a design choice intended to falsely amplify clicks for the fat-fingered economy. Advertisers & readers get cheated using such tactics.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-05-02-kpis-off-principal-agentic-ai-problem-e7ed8810a990
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/15/the-fatfinger-economy/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
I used to just print the article just to read a static version without the visual distractions but the print icon has been removed.