- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
They call it “dark traffic” - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.
Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.
And the button to close it is usually tiny and mapped poorly. Which is in and of itself shitty.
This is super intentional. Look for the Fitts law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law