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The swipe ads for digitalocean on this are tremendously obnoxious as they break back and forward swiping on Safari on iPhone.

That’s not okay, don’t do this.

But hey, it’s a way to guarantee that you’ll annoy people enough to not use it.

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Removed the ads until I can fix the problem you are experiencing. Click on App update available or reload the page again, if you'd be so kind.

Still breaks swipe to go back for me.

Opened an issue for this https://github.com/june07/clippings-frontend/issues/1 if you want to add some additional detail about what you are experiencing on your end...

On iOS if I swipe from the left I just get a white panel sliding out from the left. It should go back.

(There’s nothing in the panel, maybe that’s where there was previously an ad?)

Thanks for the additional information. I've updated/closed the GitHub issue below and confirmed the fix.

https://github.com/june07/clippings-frontend/issues/1

Hope you understand that this was an unknown condition prior to your helping out (I'm on Android where back navigation was unaffected) and certainly not a deliberate attempt at bad UX just to push a DO ad. Again, thank you for the valuable feedback as it helped solve the problem faster!

Nice.

Agreed. This is a new kind of obnoxious I haven’t seen before. Another app/service I simply won’t use on the basis of these attempted ads.

While I agree that the UX WAS obnoxious prior to the fix below, it was not deliberate and has been fixed.

https://github.com/june07/clippings-frontend/issues/1

Cheers

Noted. Will address asap! Thanks.

Much better now :)

Thanks for taking that onboard and resolving it.

It brings me joy. Thanks again for your help as well.

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