1st World Tech Problems

When you load a webpage on your mobile, go to click on a link, but the page hasn’t finished loading and jumps down, meaning you click on the wrong link. You hit back to try again, and the same thing happens again.

Conversation 8 comments

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    22 June, 2018 - 9:06 am

    <p>This would kind of thing would make for an amusing book. </p>

  • karlinhigh

    Premium Member
    22 June, 2018 - 11:27 am

    <p>And right there is one of my biggest frustrations with mobile devices. "Am I waiting for the device, or is the device waiting for me?"</p>

  • AnOldAmigaUser

    Premium Member
    22 June, 2018 - 11:41 am

    <p>In my experience, it is the ads that have not finished loading, and the wrong link clicked is usually an ad. One might almost suspect it is a conspiracy.</p>

  • karlinhigh

    Premium Member
    22 June, 2018 - 12:37 pm

    <p>More 1st World Tech Problems: In an electrical power outage, the first thing the household notices is that the wireless network is gone.</p><p><br></p><p>"Mom! Did you forget to pay the WiFi bill?"</p>

  • Thom77

    31 December, 2018 - 4:37 pm

    <p>I consider it a divine message to me that I need to spend less time online.</p>

  • waethorn

    31 December, 2018 - 6:05 pm

    <p>Advertisers love this behaviour.</p>

  • Daekar

    31 December, 2018 - 6:12 pm

    <p>And this one of the reasons I refuse to use a mobile browser without adblocking. Firefox for Android gives you access to all the desktop Firefox plugins, so you can use all the normal ones you would on your PC.</p>

    • jimchamplin

      Premium Member
      31 December, 2018 - 8:32 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#389392">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>Is that for real? Hell, that might make me go Android.</p>

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