This happens to me a lot these days - search for something, website/app lists some stuff one of which I’m interested in. But as soon as I move my finger to tap on it, the website/app loads something else and move what I wanted to tap up or down. I unintentionally click another result and get annoyed I have to do the whole thing all over again.
On websites or apps, how often do you tap on something that you didn't intend to ?
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andrewta 10 points a year ago
If the app or website is built well. Basically never.
If the developer was doing lines or crack while creating the interface that there’s a good chance I’ll misclick.
These days more then I’d like I misclick
Admetus 4 points a year ago
No account on reddit so it has a popup to make an account. More often than not, if you are not touching the close button accurately, touching any part of the screen immediately sends you to the signup page. Another reason why I barely touch that website anymore.
PartyPatella 4 points a year ago
uBlock Origin, my dear stranger :) "Social annoyances" should do the trick, IIRC.
But yes, the site is still despicable. Although it hosts a lot of great information, unfortunately.
monovergent 2 points a year ago
I never got the hang of touchscreen keyboards. My most common typo is b, v, or n instead of a space when I don't move my thumb down enough.
Also, media apps that try to cram in a million gestures on the screen. On VLC, NewPipe, mpv, the swipe to adjust volume and brightness gestures are my worst offenders. Thankfully they can be disabled.
I want an option to temporarily disable the touchscreen in general so I'm not forced to hold my devices by their amazingly thin bezels when watching a video or showing off an image/QR code. Maybe implementable as an option in the power button long-press menu.
lucg 1 point a year ago
Not often, but those "agree to extra terms to continue viewing the content that you were already looking at for 0.9 seconds" pop-ups (cookie walls and the like) sometimes pop the agree button exactly under where I'm clicking, or activate the button with spacebar that I was just using to scroll down a page
Always wonder if it is a valid legal defense if the pop-up can be dismissed faster than it is possible to read them, but I'm afraid of the potential global consequences if I were to challenge that
NKBTN 1 point a year ago
Probably at least once a week, but it's usually not ad-related. Even system apps do it. E.g. I go to my Bluetooth options to connect to a saved device (soundbar, headphones etc) and as I go to tap it, a list of unsaved nearby devices suddenly populates at the top, driving down saved devices to the bottom.
Drbreen 1 point a year ago
I like to play 8 ball pool on Android but holy fucking shitballs batman, just when you think the pop down offers have finished along comes another one. And they have it perfectly fined tuned to human reaction times so that you actually click on it.
ready_for_qa 1 point a year ago
The one that happens to me the most is on Instagram. When there is overflow text on the caption of a post and it provides the "more" link, I accidentally hit the "save" bookmark icon because of how close they are. It's usually some news post or something that I definitely have no interest in saving. It feels like bad UX design to me.
LemmyKnowsBest 0 points a year ago
Maybe once every few weeks an accidental click. I'm usually pretty careful.
BuboScandiacus 0 points a year ago
On the modern web nothing seems to ne adapted to small touchscreens. Wanna do something ? Gotta download the app and make an account !
black0ut 4 points a year ago
Disclaimer: never use Brave browser, it's really bad. The CEO is an asshole, and they promote crypto and scams, while still showing their own ads. They also got caught sneakily adding affiliate codes to URLs. (https://www.spacebar.news/...)
Use firefox or any firefox derivative with ublock origin (yes, even on android)
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When my ad blocker is doing what it’s supposed, not nearly as much, but yeah, especially on mobile news sites. They’ll just aggressively blast you with constant shit loading in.
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