Jump, Jump, Jump...Jump Around

@porwest (78761)
United States
July 21, 2019 2:22pm CST
I absolutely hate them. You know what I am talking about. It's those 'articles' that are not really articles that sucker you in with something "What she saw next shocked her..." You get one picture and a small blurb. The you click NEXT and get another picture and a small blurb... You might go through 20 or 30 of these pages with pictures and small blurbs before you get to the end completely dissatisfied. All the while each of those pages loads with 15+ ads AND the thing that REALLY gets under my skin about these so called articles is how they make it very clear their main purpose is to simply TRICK you into clicking on one of those ads. Because the freaking page jumps around, up and down, and it happens MOST OF THE TIME right as you are about to hit the NEXT button to get to the next page making it nearly impossible to NOT hit one of those ads by mistake. I hate them. But I still get suckered in from time to time. I try to wait for the page to completely load and stop jumping around, but it slows the whole process down... Even if I know the end of the whole mess will be a complete let down anyway.
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6 responses
@just4him (306196)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 Jul 19
I've never seen those articles. I have AdBlocker. I have tried to read articles but they beg me to turn off AdBlocker and I won't do it, so I back out of that article.
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@just4him (306196)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
31 Jul 19
@porwest Geico is funny. I have American Family.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
4 Aug 19
@just4him They are. I have Allstate.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
28 Jul 19
You are obviously the smart one, here.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Jul 19
I have learned to recognize those sucker articles.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
22 Jul 19
I just wish I could learn better to avoid them.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Sep 19
Yeppers. They're not that hard to spot.
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• United States
23 Jul 19
i hate those damn things.especially the ones where you have to go page to page to look at a picture set.yea,that site gets closed.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Jul 19
I hate those too, really they are so annoying but of course, it is our curiosity that they are playing on to suck us in, and they do suck us in!! lol
@Tampa_girl7 (48937)
• United States
22 Jul 19
I do my best to avoid them. They are very annoying.
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
21 Jul 19
We just can’t help it. We want to know ‘what shocked her’.