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Anders Eknert
Stefan 🧝@anderseknert
That!
Alexa Devreux-SwiftI feel this pain 😬
Images that make you smile
Fun Weirdo@anderseknert it rhymed well :D
River@anderseknert somehow, nearly all of these things are related to software. Somebody ought to make a project called Neutron so we can all be even more confused when talking about things.
Colin Watson
Regendans
Hari Prakash@anderseknert so the close button is a neutrino, makes sense as its soo hard to detect and interact with.
Parade du Grotesque 💀
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@anderseknert That close button is still bigger than my mouse cursor is it's unrealistically big 🧌
Neil Moffatt@anderseknert They are so annoying. And of course pointlessly small.
In similar vein, the song next and previous navigation controls in Spotify on my android device are all cramped. As if fingers were thin like pencils. Do they not observe users using their software?
dbat 
@anderseknert that got a giggle!
GazaTrending@anderseknert this is an excellent commentary on the tricky nature of HTML. They can make it impossible to click something that is technically available.
Conversely, it can be made impossible to click something that is on the screen. Once you are on someone else's website, they control the entire experience.
Inky says "What the hell?!"@anderseknert Unless it is invisible.
Angua 
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Unrealistic, the final button is smaller, proportionately and disguised.
Unrealistic, the final button is smaller, proportionately and disguised.
Petri Salmela@anderseknert And not just that, but if you miss the button, you click the ad and it is opened.
Slackbear 
@anderseknert A bane for me, who has fat fingers...
kasperd@kasperd as the saying goes; the system is not broken but working exactly as designed
Anthony Sorace@anderseknert @dasparky Nonsense — Electron is gigantic and keeps getting bigger!
Rick the CardYeah and they keep moving the X so I have to look for it. I have an Addon called, "Behind the Overlay" when one of those ads popup I just press the Addon icon and this gets rid of most of them.
@RickD_Card yeah, mobile Safari has a “hide distracting element” function (on top of ad blockers I always found to work so-so on mobile) … but I either tend to forget it’s there or the site has so many ads that it feels like a chore to fix manually
rhempel@anderseknert The four basic particles that make up the universe:
Protons
Electrons
Neutrons
...
Morons
SuperMeown@anderseknert there is a 5th close button which appears after few seconds if you wait 😬
Jean Luc am GrimmstenThat depiction of the electron relative to the proton/neutron are not at all to scale. In reality, an electron is much, much smaller. Where an atomic nucleus' diameter is usually measured in fm (10^-12), an electron is just a dot, where standard physics are not applicable any more (smaller than 10^-18).
I'd therefore argue that the close button of an ad is larger than an electron since it has an x on it, which requires space.
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zeitrafferin@anderseknert the AD stands for active directory
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