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by prometheus76 411 days ago
Oh man. This makes me want to throw my phone against the nearest brick wall sometimes. The UI is loading, I reach for the button I want to hit, but it moves and a different button takes its place because the app/page is still loading, or worse, an ad has taken the place of the button.

This also happens where sometimes the hotbar has three buttons, and sometimes four, and the worst apps are when buttons switch ordinal positions depending on if there are three or four buttons in there.

It feels very strange to get so agitated by these small behaviors, but here we are.
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chasd00 411 days ago
> or worse, an ad has taken the place of the button.

this has happened to me and i even clicked on the ad. It actually made me smile a little bit and reminded me of the "clever girl" scene in Jurassic Park.

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pmarreck 411 days ago
It's like getting poked hard in its annoyance level, right?

> or worse, an ad has taken the place of the button

That's actually a dark pattern/perverse incentive I hint at towards the end of my blog post about it.

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