Right up there with the UI that shifts right when you’re going to tap/click on the thing you’re interested in and instead an ad or other feature is inserted and off you go.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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"Defrauding advertisers while annoying users is the next big thing, which will surely not bite us in the ass long term"
Nah, just get personal PR managers for the involved people, let the company fail and make sure to move on before that.
The decision makes are exempt from consequences.
Undefined term - "long term". Management doesn't know what that is.
They don't need AI for this.
I recall that at least one website was having a transparent object follow the cursor around with a link to an ad in the invisible window. No matter where you clicked, ad.
Why waste all the electricity on trying to predict it, when you can get the same effect by simply snapping the ad link right to the cursor in a transparent window.
Don't worry, that's what the developer did. They just convinced their boss it's AI to keep their job
anti-assistive tech.
Hmm... Watch an ad in order to post a comment.
Reading that made me want to slap you.
Glad i was on topic then.
Drink verification can!
I did this a long time ago. Instead of trigger on mouse up, I triggered a popup on mouse down then just loaded the page I wanted. It didn't actually do what it looked like it was doing, but the effect was infuriating.
Maybe they should have invested in AI technology that can tell with 95% accuracy when somebody is about to hit them in the head with a baseball bat.
So it's just the number 95% . . . Cause I know I'm batting a 1000 on this idea 🏏.