@anderseknert@swecyb.com And not just that, but if you miss the button, you click the ad and it is opened.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Not shown: crouton, wonton

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Yeah and they keep moving the X so I have to look for it. I have an Addon called, "Behind the Overlay" when one of those ads popup I just press the Addon icon and this gets rid of most of them.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com @dasparky@spore.social Nonsense — Electron is gigantic and keeps getting bigger!

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Accurate

@anderseknert@swecyb.com That close button is still bigger than my mouse cursor is it's unrealistically big 🧌

@anderseknert@swecyb.com so the close button is a neutrino, makes sense as its soo hard to detect and interact with.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com That!

@anderseknert@swecyb.com It's a strange quark

@anderseknert@swecyb.com 👍😂😂😂

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Fact!

@anderseknert@swecyb.com the AD stands for active directory

@anderseknert@swecyb.com That depiction of the electron relative to the proton/neutron are not at all to scale. In reality, an electron is much, much smaller. Where an atomic nucleus' diameter is usually measured in fm (10^-12), an electron is just a dot, where standard physics are not applicable any more (smaller than 10^-18). I'd therefore argue that the close button of an ad is larger than an electron since it has an x on it, which requires space. 👍

@anderseknert@swecyb.com The four basic particles that make up the universe: Protons Electrons Neutrons ... Morons

@anderseknert@swecyb.com there is a 5th close button which appears after few seconds if you wait 😬

@anderseknert@swecyb.com A bane for me, who has fat fingers...

The majority of people who click on ads click right next to the close button.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com a classic on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq79wG3DqvI

@anderseknert@swecyb.com this is an excellent commentary on the tricky nature of HTML. They can make it impossible to click something that is technically available. Conversely, it can be made impossible to click something that is on the screen. Once you are on someone else's website, they control the entire experience.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Unless it is invisible.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com Unrealistic, the final button is smaller, proportionately and disguised.

@anderseknert@swecyb.com They are so annoying. And of course pointlessly small. In similar vein, the song next and previous navigation controls in Spotify on my android device are all cramped. As if fingers were thin like pencils. Do they not observe users using their software?

@anderseknert@swecyb.com that got a giggle!

@anderseknert@swecyb.com it rhymed well :D

@anderseknert@swecyb.com somehow, nearly all of these things are related to software. Somebody ought to make a project called Neutron so we can all be even more confused when talking about things.

😄 (Funny. Me thinking also, that's Proton Mail, and Electron Chromium for Signal desktop and other memory hogging apps, and close-ad-button in browser, but what is the link with Neutron and computer things ?)

@anderseknert@swecyb.com I feel this pain 😬