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Some folks use this fact to place ads in such way that when you want to click something by the time your finger taps the screen there is an ad underneath. So annoying.

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Indeed. An even more nefarious Dark Pattern [1] if the have a listener on the "mouse down" event and use it as the trigger.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

That's not even a dark pattern, that's eqvuivalent to the link pointing to the ad all along =/

This is the worst, a french website Leboncoin (craigslist basically) does this, makes me want to murder the people behind it

When you click next page nothing happens long enough to make you think your click hasn't been registered, then right as you click again the page loads with ads right where the button was

You should use an adblocker.

The people who should complain about this are the advertisers. It amounts to fraud on the web site's part.

...at which part the whole site experience breaks. find a fine-tuned config that blocks the right things and it might break again in a month.

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