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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by stjohnswarts on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:34AM (#33315376)
It's because people assume that these things are benevolent because they were made by people. Gen X on down are natural skeptics so we don't end up with as much garbage on our phones, it's still possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by JustSomeNobody on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:36AM (#33316434)
> possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.

I personally believe that some sites are designed to shift just a bit to cause this. Like they've used analytics to know how quickly people push the link and now they've designed a slow loading image to shift the page at that point.

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