Ah, I think that's the case. I'm sure there's a chain all the way back to when the feature first got put into Chrome because someone complained about the page jumping.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:40:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at the comments on reddit consistently, you'll find very quickly that most of the stuff on the front page is links reposted from comment threads.
Haha the gold is more than enough. I had noticed the flag weeks ago in a chrome canary update but I was surprised that so many people had never noticed it till now.
Hopefully everyone reports the pages that are not functioning properly with the flag enabled so Chrome dev's can improve the feature. It does work flawlessly on certain websites and it would be fantastic to see it working on all of them.
omegian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:13 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once adsense clicks start dropping, you know they're going to kill this feature.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:09:57 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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omegian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:10 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scroll jacking wouldn't exist if developers didn't use asynchronous JavaScript to resize elements after loading "extra crap" after the render completes. They coukd give the element a realistic placeholding size (banner ads have been standardized for decades) and replace the content gently , but they purposefully do this other thing instead.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With Android 6 you can. Hold home button to bring up Google Now and then on the bottom there will be a finger icon, with it you can select any text from any app.
I just discovered you can copy portions of comments in relay too!
Just hit reply, then advanced and then on the square next to the send button which it's for "in reply to.." and you can select all the text of the comment you want like any other text.
nept_r ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:14:24 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well of course, but that's like 6 steps to copy a simple section. It was way way better to have it as a separate comment
Is there a website that constantly seems to cause this issue? I'm trying to test the feature.
v12spd ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 20:14:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Literally any article from theverge.com. Pages tend to jump 1-2 times before you can read the article depending on what the ad is for. It happens frequently after I'm certain the page is done loading so its really frustrating. I've given up on more than one occasion and googled the topic to read about it from another source. Here's hoping this fixes that.
CoMiGa ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 21:04:37 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried this on theverge.com on Chrome for Android and it still page jumps when the ad loads.
emd2013 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:18:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same here
xtphty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:04:12 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because ads loading is resizing or inserting elements in the webpage, which causes a natural shit down of content below the modified area. All this chrome flag does is prevent scripts from controlling the scrolling, which is sometimes abused, but mostly there for things like 'go to top' links.
omegian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:38 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The text editor doesn't work right on many websites (facebook) which prevents me from moving the cursor around so I can only delete the last character I entered. I don't know why they felt the need to implement their own "text edit window" control instead of use the one that comes with android?
I'm torn between using Chrome for bandwidth compression -vs- Mozilla for adblock (and general fuckyness with text input).
If you like the open web, perhaps make an effort to use Firefox. Much better to support Mozilla, who have done far more than Google for openness online. Firefox mobile isn't perfect, granted, but it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination.
Steezle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
winkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:43 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try ad guard. Working well for me.
ukiyoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recommended The Verge to a coworker, but didn't factor in the fact that she doesn't use ad blockers. I went over to her cube and I was shocked at how gaudy the site is in its "purest" form.
I rarely use Smashboards, but it has this red box that pops up after the page loads if I have an ad blocker on. Anchoring mostly prevents the page from sliding down, as it would have before.
Reddit desktop site does it to me all the time. Halfway down a thread, click link, hit back, try to upvote, page jumps, now I'm looking at somebody's user page.
Today's top story! Married TV reporters in Arizona arrested and charged after 'mother breast fed their four-month-old baby hours after snorting cocaine with her husband'
Oh man, I'd love this too. Strangely hard to Google for, since "anchor" and "scroll" are used for other things I guess.
Edit: yes, thanks, I know how quotations work. I've been using Google since at least 2000, when Yahoo started using them & I switched away from Altavista & whatever else I used.
cawpin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:59 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search for "scroll anchoring" including the quotes.
Still early and already hit-or-miss, but might be enough of a net-positive to keep on.
proxier ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:44:36 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've tested a few sites on my Moto X Pure (no root, vanilla Marshmallow) and the page jumps are still happening. Can anyone name a site where they've seen it function as designed?
I'm gonna read the comments either way, so just getting the gist of what the OP is about from the comments is more efficient. If I'm just totally uninterested in something I'll usually just read the comments.
Of course, I could just do neither...
1RedOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:43 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read an article on the Verge, a host notorious for page jumping, and it the page jumping was totally resolved!
proxier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:57 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, it works pretty well there. One site I tried, io9.com (I know, I know) still doesn't seem to do as well. Pretty great to see this getting addressed.
rbruba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:40 on August 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had a mixed experience so far. I eventually disabled it again because it prevented me from scrolling at all on some pages. So yeah, a great idea, but needs some work still.
[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 18:24:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still a lot of full page "Join our email list!" light box garbage.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:53 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And why do you think they are going with those big ass ads....because ad blockers...
htx1114 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:14:02 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but only people without blockers see them, and then they go install ad blockers...
thor79 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes them to resort to even worse measures. The big intrusive ads didn't exist until ad blockers came about. The less traffic they get to their ads...the more they have to resort to more intrusive ads to get the views. I would say quit stealing content but I know your type. Eventually they'll start detecting when you aren't viewing an ad and will just block the content. You don't like paywalls...then pay for the content you are stealing.
That's not true, popup ads came about far before blocking ads became prevalent.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:01 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They came far before ad blockers became popular..but methods to block ads have been around since ads were first brought to the web. I know because I used some of them in the early days of the web. I used ad blockers for a short time after they first became popular. I switched to just using NoScript on Firefox to block annoying content and dangerous content. I stopped using that too when I switched to using Chrome. Now if an ad bugs me I manually delete it using the built in inspector. I also pay not to see ads on some services when possible.
They're the ones putting it on the Web for us to view - how is it stealing if we go to view it?? many sites don't have a way for us to pay them, unlike NYTimes or WaPo.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:28 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their chosen revenue model is by using ads. By blocking them you are stealing content. There are actually ways with some sites where you can pay not to see the ads. They either do it themselves through their account system or through a service like Google Contributor.
Sites that offer a way to pay ate the minority. Far more choose the lazy way - blast the visitor with ads that user has little control over.
Calling it stealing is absurd, on.par with claiming red light cameras in school zones are a restriction on your freedom.
If i place a postit note over part of my screen so i don't see the ad, is that stealing too? If i change the windiw size so the side banner is off-screen, is that stealing? What about muting the youtube ad? or shutting my eyes while the video plays? According to your logic these would all be stealing.
If anything those sites should be reimbursing us for the bandwidth their ads eat up - they're stealing megabytes from my data plan! Oh wait, i voluntarily chose to visit the site. i can easily avoid the 'penalty' of 'stolen bandwidth' by not clicking on their site. Just as the site producer can avoid the 'penalty' of 'stolen content' by actually charging people for it. If they're not willing to do that they should quit complaining about people using adblockers.
Tl;dr: Adblockers are nothing more than digital eyelids, get over it
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:02 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes you can choose not to visit the site and use up both your bandwidth and their bandwidth (guess what...running a site costs money for bandwidth and other things). You choose to consume their content which they offer up and then small cost of you viewing ads. By blocking those ads, how ever you choose to do so...you are stealing that content. You have used their resources without paying for them. You haven't paid their writers or editors for their work on the content you consumed.
It's also a pain in the ass to get perfect on all devices and all screen sizes. Every so often I'll get a string that just happens to overflow it's container in just a narrow range of screen sizes haha. Ah well half of front end web development is some form of weird hacks and work arounds. Sometimes it's fun and rewarding to fix an issue, other times it's such a headache.
The funny thing is that even if all of the non-responsive websites just hacked together poor implementations of responsive design and they did look buggy on certain screen sizes, it would probably still be better on the whole than having a bunch of websites that only display well on very large screens.
But it would, of course, still be a huge pain in the ass to remake a whole bunch of websites, even if it wasn't done perfectly.
I redid a simple 10 page website, and it wasn't even so much of an "update" as it was a redesign. Nothing old fits, you at least have the content and images, but it's easier to start from a basic template and work your way up. Still took a good 2 months for me to do by myself (I will admit I had other concurrent responsible though). Realistically I'd say it costs about $300-$500 to redesign even a simple site. At the very minimum even with getting up a WordPress site with a generic template, and some basic pages is a fair bit of work. Work some people just don't want to pay for because "works fine on my screen. I only use my phone to text anyways" small business owners.
Nilzor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:19 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And how exactly does this flag fix that without breaking ad-presentation? Not that I care, but I assume some certain billion dollar companies does.
edit: I get it, it expands the canvas upwards for content already scrolled past. Page still dynamically grows.
When anything (doesn't have to be an add) causes the page to re-render, it remembers where you were looking before, and then re-scrolls you to that part after it loads.
Before scroll-lock: you are 10% down the page, now an ad loads. Afterwards, you are still 10% down, but the content you were reading is now 15% down so you feel like you jumped up.
After scroll-lock: you are 10% down the page, now an ad loads. Chrome recognizes that the content you were reading is now at 15% and scrolls you there, so it feels like you haven't moved.
Mark7A ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:28:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate that. They should make a fix for page jumps.
ukiyoe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:48:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DRW315 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:27:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does! I used to use uBlock origin, but have since moved on to Bluehell Firewall. I may be wrong on this, but I believe the built in sync function in Firefox allows you to sync add-ons between mobile and desktop browsers (along with other settings), but I haven't actually tried it.
Youtube on desktop is really bad for this. When you load someone's channel there's a set of links at the top of the page to the channel's videos, playlists, discussion, about, etc but once the page finishes loading they disappear. This always makes me click on the intro video when I want to click on videos/playlists.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:25 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this not even the default. Chrome on Android is not by any means recent, but it will hasn't solved this issue. Stupid web..
Because it isn't an easy thing to solve. As you may gather from other answers, it is far from perfect, and on several pages it may actually make things much worse.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:01:20 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That is so clearly the reason. From a development standpoint, it would be easy to dedicate a block of space to the ad before it loads. Instead the ad reveals by shoving itself into already used space, normally right around a high traffic link or top nav, after a brief delay. There is no way that isn't intentional and it should be outlawed by the Geneva convention.
defet_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:13 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It becomes common knowledge in web development after a certain point, but interestingly enough this is something completely overlooked by newbies, and when implementing ads into your site you usually just insert their script and you don't want to deal with it anymore.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:49 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original post announcing this (not the XDA developer nonsense one) says they're still testing it to makes sure there are no adverse effects on sites.
Doesn't work for the offender that immediately came to mind (the verge)
1RedOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:30 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It did work for me. Instead of the page leaping all over, I could see the scroll bar briefly appear to reflect that the portion of the page I'm viewing has now changed, relative to the increased length of the document.
So it worked for me on that same site.
jago81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, I enabled on my phone. I relaunched. Went to Gamefaqs since they are notorious for this bullshit. It still jumps when the ads at top load. What am I doing wrong?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:45 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ads are just barely offscreen so still count as on screen? The feature is in beta anyways. Errors can be reported. Read article 4 more info.
This is great. Worked well on the linked article, which jumped around when I tried to copy the link. :-( I had started to stop reading articles that jumped around. Unfortunately, now there is less incentive for the sites to optimize their pages. (assuming this goes mainstream)
kronaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:33 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just an info, you can use this in any chrome custom tabs browser aswell.
(in my case-yubrowser for snapdragon)
moeburn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:26 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, on Android, I have to choose between Chrome, which allows me to have a browser that doesn't randomly have tics and seizures,
or Firefox, which allows me to have extensions like uBlock that give me a desktop-like adblock experience.
I've been testing the sites in this thread on Firefox and it seems that uBlock takes care of the page jumping. Does anyone know if there are any sites that page jump even with an ad blocker?
So good! I would also like to see the same feature used for the notification bar. Some poorly designed apps expand their notification after initial load, causing a scroll jump.
Seankps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:51 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just tried it. Doesn't work so far but nice find
5cr0tum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:05 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want this to be a standard feature for all browsers, especially mobile. Glad to see Google is (Admittedly without much fanfare) leading the charge on this by testing it out. All the other browsers should step up to the plate, help shield the consumer from this ultra-annoying issue.
Now if only I could enable this on my Skype contact list. It will come up, I will move to tap the top (most recent) conversation, and then the ad will fill in, pushing the top contact down, and I tap the ad. I'm sure they didn't intentionally design it that way to get clicks...
Wow, thank you so much! The feature isn't perfect yet, but I'm sure they'll flesh it out.
Mobile browsing is in such a bad spot right now. It's an exception to land on a page that isn't overloaded by all kinds of scripts. This feature will help out a lot with that.
Huh. I don't really get it -- maybe I've never had this happen? Or else I'm having a hell of a time visualizing / understanding this, because I've watched both videos on the link and I don't really get it.
Does anyone have a before / after video? That might make it easier to understand what's going on with this.
EDIT: Maybe because I use AdAway and don't get any / many ads?
On Android, when you close the Chrome app it doesn't close all of the tabs like it used to, instead when you reopen the Chrome app all of the tabs that you were viewing are still open.
Actually, you don't need to close any app. That's the worst thing you can do to your system.
Anyway, the reason Chrome does this, is that you won't lose your tabs if Android kicks it off from RAM on it's own. And for Chrome being one of the biggest RAM hogs, it certainly will, even on 4GB ram devices.
gadorp ยท 917 points ยท Posted at 17:29:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone yesterday said they'd pay a million bucks for this.
TheRealKidkudi ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 17:35:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And one of the top comments was this tip. My guess is that's what prompted them to write the article.
TachyonGun ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 17:51:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Credit goes to someone from the Nexus 6P sub. Maybe they were prompted by that post? How deep does the rabbit hole go...?
Redd575 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 18:57:16 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the way back to gingerbread.
entenuki ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:01:05 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit!
TheRealKidkudi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:25 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I think that's the case. I'm sure there's a chain all the way back to when the feature first got put into Chrome because someone complained about the page jumping.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:40:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old...
Eh fuck it
forte_bass ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:41:21 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my whatever, I'm... probably just gonna go watch Netflix.
criggles1 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:07:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
https://i.imgur.com/BvuWRxq.jpg
edit* fixed link
hannibalhooper14 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:13:39 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CPA-Poke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:41 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/I7ci2ZX.jpg
PaleFlyer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:19:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said?
fireysaje ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:56:56 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at the comments on reddit consistently, you'll find very quickly that most of the stuff on the front page is links reposted from comment threads.
Bunderslaw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:18:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/criggles1 replied to one of the top-comments on /r/Showerthoughts with this tip.
AFAIK /u/criggles1 didn't get a million bucks but did get their golden cherry popped.
criggles1 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:41:32 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha the gold is more than enough. I had noticed the flag weeks ago in a chrome canary update but I was surprised that so many people had never noticed it till now.
Hopefully everyone reports the pages that are not functioning properly with the flag enabled so Chrome dev's can improve the feature. It does work flawlessly on certain websites and it would be fantastic to see it working on all of them.
omegian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:13 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once adsense clicks start dropping, you know they're going to kill this feature.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:09:57 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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omegian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:10 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scroll jacking wouldn't exist if developers didn't use asynchronous JavaScript to resize elements after loading "extra crap" after the render completes. They coukd give the element a realistic placeholding size (banner ads have been standardized for decades) and replace the content gently , but they purposefully do this other thing instead.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R/showerthoughts I believe
vegineer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:04 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My day has been made!
[deleted] ยท 450 points ยท Posted at 19:02:24 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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martinw89 ยท 966 points ยท Posted at 20:12:58 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
chrome://flags/#enable-scroll-anchoring
martinw89 ยท 716 points ยท Posted at 20:13:29 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those using a reddit app like Sync or Relay that make it easy to copy whole comments but not portions of a comment.
giving-ladies-rabies ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:09:42 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With Android 6 you can. Hold home button to bring up Google Now and then on the bottom there will be a finger icon, with it you can select any text from any app.
mustache-man ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:21:39 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap, this should have its own post.
Reddit apps just got way more usable
linkpunch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:50:24 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can select it but not copy it, help!
soulicro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:35 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Share, copy to clipboard ๐
linkpunch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:52 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I didn't even think of that, thanks!
knightfallzx2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:22:08 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap, it works... I really need to use Google Now On Tap more often.
BlackDave0490 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:29:00 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy he'll this is not something I'd have ever known.
Real useful LPT right here
silverAndroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:15 on July 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I copy? I can only select words
giving-ladies-rabies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:24 on July 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not super convenient, but if you need to copy text, you can do Share > Copy to clipboard (at least I have that option)
Jabjab345 ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 20:24:47 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are the real mvp
DanerDMaster ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:51:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So nice, I upvoted you twice.
TheCydonian ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 21:54:55 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have now been banned for vote manipulation
/s
Bomberlt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:36:25 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First one was just a referendum, all legit.
twodarray ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:46:48 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
isn't that just not voting?
dextersgenius ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:14:14 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the thought that counts.
Cancer_Jesus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:49:36 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He made 2 comments
Gick-Drayson ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:29:05 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just discovered you can copy portions of comments in relay too!
Just hit reply, then advanced and then on the square next to the send button which it's for "in reply to.." and you can select all the text of the comment you want like any other text.
nept_r ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:14:24 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well of course, but that's like 6 steps to copy a simple section. It was way way better to have it as a separate comment
AlienatedLabor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:29:38 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sync shows the comment you're replying to in a top pane, too, but it's not as easy as just clicking "Copy post text"
my-other-account-is ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:58 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sync automatically shows the comment above your reply, so you don't have to click any extra buttons to copy select portions of comments.
lowbread ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right after I just did the thing...๐ข
qwackerman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:18 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
Ticking-Away ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:46 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that. I'm new to smartphones and trying relay out.
TheeSillyman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:24 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luv u
sacesu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:38 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea it worked on Android's version! Thanks.
ihateusedusernames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:29 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RedditIsFun sucks at this, too. Can only copy entire comments. It's why i almost never quote someone when replying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:42 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you reply to yourself, does it make you feel dirty?
TheMusiKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:08 on July 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you from the bottom of my
pageheart.legoing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:51:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
INeedHelpFromYourMom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:01:03 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love you
ObviouslyNotAMoose ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:04:24 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hero we need.
CatDaddy5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:31:15 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you i appreciate it
ilikestuffliketrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:10 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Change back
Veadro ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:10 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I just need to find some clickbait to test this puppy out!
iRainMak3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:22 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
PaleFlyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:25 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome. This means it should work on PC to! This shit is killing me on my tablets.
squidgun ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:30:35 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks man.
AugmentedFury ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:18 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much appreciated.
12YearsASlave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:31:28 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm getting this, there's like20 different enables, which one do I click?
Daakkon ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 17:32:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!!! Page jumping drives me absolutely bat shit crazy!
BradC ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 21:10:08 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right? Why the hell isn't this turned on by default?
NessInOnett ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 21:58:21 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an experimental feature. Probably going in eventually, just not tested 100% or completely finished yet
z3ntu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:35:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be enabled as default in the future.
DigitalChocobo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:08:33 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any desired functionality that is broken by enabling this feature?
numun_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:44 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before I read that post I thought I was the only one who got engaged by this.
cttttt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now if only they could fix the Android share menu, so I don't accidentally share to the wrong contact with a single tap.
BlackDave0490 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:49 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Verge is the worst for this. No idea why I still go there
colinbr96 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 19:05:19 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a website that constantly seems to cause this issue? I'm trying to test the feature.
v12spd ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 20:14:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Literally any article from theverge.com. Pages tend to jump 1-2 times before you can read the article depending on what the ad is for. It happens frequently after I'm certain the page is done loading so its really frustrating. I've given up on more than one occasion and googled the topic to read about it from another source. Here's hoping this fixes that.
CoMiGa ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 21:04:37 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried this on theverge.com on Chrome for Android and it still page jumps when the ad loads.
emd2013 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:18:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same here
xtphty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:04:12 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because ads loading is resizing or inserting elements in the webpage, which causes a natural shit down of content below the modified area. All this chrome flag does is prevent scripts from controlling the scrolling, which is sometimes abused, but mostly there for things like 'go to top' links.
MrCrashdummy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:15 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So "go to top" links don't work any more with this flag enabled?
shadow386 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 20:20:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turned off uBlock Origin to test this out, and there's a fucking ad at the top of one of the pages that takes up over 60% of the page. What the hell.
UmbrellaCorp1961 ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 22:02:54 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
1st mistake.: Reading Verge.
2nd mistake: Not not reading Verge.
3rd mistake : Visual contact with webpage called Verge.
Kenya151 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:54:59 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I refuse to read Verge
ngwoo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:15:04 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dae iverge?
ohstylo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:32 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some hipster dipshit from the verge ruins my TWIT podcasts sometimes so I vowed never to browse the site
adityapstar ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:45:03 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually cancer
https://imgur.com/0vBmMOv
PoopenHammer ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 21:16:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The verge is cancer anyway
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:38 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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entenuki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:03:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you like firefox?
Serious question, not mad or anything.
omegian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:38 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The text editor doesn't work right on many websites (facebook) which prevents me from moving the cursor around so I can only delete the last character I entered. I don't know why they felt the need to implement their own "text edit window" control instead of use the one that comes with android?
I'm torn between using Chrome for bandwidth compression -vs- Mozilla for adblock (and general fuckyness with text input).
lukasubo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:33:55 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you like the open web, perhaps make an effort to use Firefox. Much better to support Mozilla, who have done far more than Google for openness online. Firefox mobile isn't perfect, granted, but it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination.
Steezle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adblocking can reduce your bandwidth, no?
e7RdkjQVzw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your battery use.
shadow386 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:49 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue also happens on desktop for that massive ad bullcrap. I forgot I was in /r/android when I wrote that.
Watney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:45 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might try YuBrowser if you roll with a Snapdragon phone
linkme:YuBrowser
PlayStoreLinks__Bot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:40 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YuBrowser - Fast, Filters Ads - Free - Rating: 86/100 - Search for 'YuBrowser' on the Play Store
Source Code | Feedback/Bug report
winkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:43 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try ad guard. Working well for me.
ukiyoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recommended The Verge to a coworker, but didn't factor in the fact that she doesn't use ad blockers. I went over to her cube and I was shocked at how gaudy the site is in its "purest" form.
TerroristOgre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:57 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worked for me. Thank you for your comment.
GiveMeBackMySon ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:20:11 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/DEGJ7iH.gif
Luxorcism ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:40:39 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I rarely use Smashboards, but it has this red box that pops up after the page loads if I have an ad blocker on. Anchoring mostly prevents the page from sliding down, as it would have before.
xBIGREDDx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:37:32 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit desktop site does it to me all the time. Halfway down a thread, click link, hit back, try to upvote, page jumps, now I'm looking at somebody's user page.
Klathmon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:08:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's probably because of RES adding things.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:07 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or removing things (posts you've filtered, duplicate images, etc.)
Broseph_McTatertots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:35 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking RES. Great extension, frequent pain in the ass.
xBIGREDDx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:11 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not RES. Maybe I should have specified, but I use the desktop site on my Android tablet, in Chrome. That's where it's jumping around.
Alcahas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:43 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deviantart mobile site. Annoying banner ad for their app
The0x539 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:20 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Firefox OS user agent fixes that if you're on a browser that can spoof them.
mortenmhp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:28 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the video in the article above they use slate.com it is very consistent for me
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Droid-Life
manys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:05 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any b-grade newspaper. try http://clickorlando.com
Random_Furry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ArsTechnica
darthvalium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:46 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The very page OP linked causes this.
darksoft125 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:30 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kotaku is terrible for this. Everytime I try to click on an article, it finishes loading the ads and pops them right where I clicked.
hrishi700 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:29 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah most of Porn websites.
Turbotaber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:49 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try http://www.radiotimes.com/ even with scroll-anchoring enabled it jumps like crazy when the ads load.
drbluetongue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:59 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daily mail
Clienterror ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:44:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Today's top story! Married TV reporters in Arizona arrested and charged after 'mother breast fed their four-month-old baby hours after snorting cocaine with her husband'
mind_blowwer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:57:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mid 20s male here. The daily mail is secret indulgence of mine. I think its because they plaster pictures of half naked celebs all over the website.
drbluetongue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:50 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was just an example of a website. I wasn't pushing it or anything...
MrChechener ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:30:33 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank you for this
_-attention-_ ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:21:37 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there something like that for firefox mobile? I tried looking for addon but couldn't find anything.
WorkEthics ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:48:45 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're using FF mobile, just install ublock origin.
TerroristOgre ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 08:00:54 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY, your welcome
_-attention-_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:19 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd use chrome if it had addons handling. Actually I used it for a while but it's deal breaker for me.
monsterjamp ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:51:32 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The uBlock add-on seems to take care of page jumping.
courtlandj ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:52 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh man, I'd love this too. Strangely hard to Google for, since "anchor" and "scroll" are used for other things I guess.
Edit: yes, thanks, I know how quotations work. I've been using Google since at least 2000, when Yahoo started using them & I switched away from Altavista & whatever else I used.
cawpin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:59 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search for "scroll anchoring" including the quotes.
_-attention-_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone wondering, quotes make Google keep original structure of what's in between. Edit: can't find anything though.
arkcrysta ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:42:15 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still early and already hit-or-miss, but might be enough of a net-positive to keep on.
proxier ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:44:36 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've tested a few sites on my Moto X Pure (no root, vanilla Marshmallow) and the page jumps are still happening. Can anyone name a site where they've seen it function as designed?
mortenmhp ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:57:09 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the article they show off a video of slate.com on which it works. Seriously does no one view the original post.
UNIScienceGuy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:00:52 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll admit that I rarely ever do.
my-other-account-is ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:34 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read the article, but I didn't watch the video. Why would I watch a video for something so simple to do?
InfanticideAquifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:20 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna read the comments either way, so just getting the gist of what the OP is about from the comments is more efficient. If I'm just totally uninterested in something I'll usually just read the comments.
Of course, I could just do neither...
1RedOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:43 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read an article on the Verge, a host notorious for page jumping, and it the page jumping was totally resolved!
proxier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:57 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, it works pretty well there. One site I tried, io9.com (I know, I know) still doesn't seem to do as well. Pretty great to see this getting addressed.
rbruba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:40 on August 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Avclub.com
Clienterror ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:47 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if it isn't 100% it's better than not having it.
natxavier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:28 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had a mixed experience so far. I eventually disabled it again because it prevented me from scrolling at all on some pages. So yeah, a great idea, but needs some work still.
[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 18:24:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Anthropophagite ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 18:27:02 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you load a Web page and you start scrolling down but then ads load and make the page jump away from where you were looking.
TachyonGun ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 18:28:18 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then you accidentally tap a malware-ridden advertisement when all you wanted to do was tap a link to verify a source or follow a story.
lhamil64 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:38:08 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now all we need is them to prevent full page blocking ads. They're literally the same as pop-ups.
thatfatpolishdude ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:10:29 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We already have it. It's called blocking ads. Lots of people do it.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:33:40 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I do that on chrome on android?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:51 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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thatfatpolishdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adguard premium or block-this
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:08 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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coonwhiz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't that require root?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:47 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get a result for adaway. I get all sorts of ad blocking browsers but not an ad blocker to work within Chrome.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:39 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:58:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh whoops I'm an idiot. I searched in the Play Store.
omegian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:30 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it break MMS like adblock plus proxy for android? That's a dealbreaker for me.
5 fucking megabytes for an /etc/hosts editor? Modern software sucks...
lukasubo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:11 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all about the UI and the background service to respond to ad server requests. Likely those are causing the bloated size.
evandena ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:47:46 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still a lot of full page "Join our email list!" light box garbage.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:53 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And why do you think they are going with those big ass ads....because ad blockers...
htx1114 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:14:02 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but only people without blockers see them, and then they go install ad blockers...
thor79 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:17 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes them to resort to even worse measures. The big intrusive ads didn't exist until ad blockers came about. The less traffic they get to their ads...the more they have to resort to more intrusive ads to get the views. I would say quit stealing content but I know your type. Eventually they'll start detecting when you aren't viewing an ad and will just block the content. You don't like paywalls...then pay for the content you are stealing.
Sendbeer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:28:22 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true, popup ads came about far before blocking ads became prevalent.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:01 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They came far before ad blockers became popular..but methods to block ads have been around since ads were first brought to the web. I know because I used some of them in the early days of the web. I used ad blockers for a short time after they first became popular. I switched to just using NoScript on Firefox to block annoying content and dangerous content. I stopped using that too when I switched to using Chrome. Now if an ad bugs me I manually delete it using the built in inspector. I also pay not to see ads on some services when possible.
ihateusedusernames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:52 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the ones putting it on the Web for us to view - how is it stealing if we go to view it?? many sites don't have a way for us to pay them, unlike NYTimes or WaPo.
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:28 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their chosen revenue model is by using ads. By blocking them you are stealing content. There are actually ways with some sites where you can pay not to see the ads. They either do it themselves through their account system or through a service like Google Contributor.
ihateusedusernames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:30 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sites that offer a way to pay ate the minority. Far more choose the lazy way - blast the visitor with ads that user has little control over.
Calling it stealing is absurd, on.par with claiming red light cameras in school zones are a restriction on your freedom.
If i place a postit note over part of my screen so i don't see the ad, is that stealing too? If i change the windiw size so the side banner is off-screen, is that stealing? What about muting the youtube ad? or shutting my eyes while the video plays? According to your logic these would all be stealing.
If anything those sites should be reimbursing us for the bandwidth their ads eat up - they're stealing megabytes from my data plan! Oh wait, i voluntarily chose to visit the site. i can easily avoid the 'penalty' of 'stolen bandwidth' by not clicking on their site. Just as the site producer can avoid the 'penalty' of 'stolen content' by actually charging people for it. If they're not willing to do that they should quit complaining about people using adblockers.
Tl;dr: Adblockers are nothing more than digital eyelids, get over it
thor79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:02 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes you can choose not to visit the site and use up both your bandwidth and their bandwidth (guess what...running a site costs money for bandwidth and other things). You choose to consume their content which they offer up and then small cost of you viewing ads. By blocking those ads, how ever you choose to do so...you are stealing that content. You have used their resources without paying for them. You haven't paid their writers or editors for their work on the content you consumed.
ViperCodeGames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:50 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We really need something blocking full page blocking subscribe forms that pop-up with the exit button hidden off screen.
Orphic_Thrench ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:16 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ive managed to skip the malware, but I always seem to get the UnderArmour ad. Every. Single. Time.
thats_a_risky_click ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:25 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And web developers still don't cater to the mobile community
lukasubo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:47 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Responsive web design is nice.
ViperCodeGames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:34 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also a pain in the ass to get perfect on all devices and all screen sizes. Every so often I'll get a string that just happens to overflow it's container in just a narrow range of screen sizes haha. Ah well half of front end web development is some form of weird hacks and work arounds. Sometimes it's fun and rewarding to fix an issue, other times it's such a headache.
lukasubo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:46 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The funny thing is that even if all of the non-responsive websites just hacked together poor implementations of responsive design and they did look buggy on certain screen sizes, it would probably still be better on the whole than having a bunch of websites that only display well on very large screens.
But it would, of course, still be a huge pain in the ass to remake a whole bunch of websites, even if it wasn't done perfectly.
ViperCodeGames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:53 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I redid a simple 10 page website, and it wasn't even so much of an "update" as it was a redesign. Nothing old fits, you at least have the content and images, but it's easier to start from a basic template and work your way up. Still took a good 2 months for me to do by myself (I will admit I had other concurrent responsible though). Realistically I'd say it costs about $300-$500 to redesign even a simple site. At the very minimum even with getting up a WordPress site with a generic template, and some basic pages is a fair bit of work. Work some people just don't want to pay for because "works fine on my screen. I only use my phone to text anyways" small business owners.
Nilzor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:19 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And how exactly does this flag fix that without breaking ad-presentation? Not that I care, but I assume some certain billion dollar companies does.
edit: I get it, it expands the canvas upwards for content already scrolled past. Page still dynamically grows.
Sophrosynic ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:54:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When anything (doesn't have to be an add) causes the page to re-render, it remembers where you were looking before, and then re-scrolls you to that part after it loads.
Before scroll-lock: you are 10% down the page, now an ad loads. Afterwards, you are still 10% down, but the content you were reading is now 15% down so you feel like you jumped up.
After scroll-lock: you are 10% down the page, now an ad loads. Chrome recognizes that the content you were reading is now at 15% and scrolls you there, so it feels like you haven't moved.
Mark7A ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:28:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate that. They should make a fix for page jumps.
ukiyoe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:48:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good news, there's a fix!
ElRicardoMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:51 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'll be damned...
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 18:36:22 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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S-Aint ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you using to block ads on mobile?
Natanael_L ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:21:44 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Firefox Mobile with ublock
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:53:43 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adaway.
Botcher23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:50:54 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung browser with adblock fast extension, for me. Works pretty well, but not perfectly. The anchoring feature would still be useful.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung browser + Crystal for me. It blocks annoying ads, but allows non-intrusive ones at the same time.
Botcher23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:21 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really enjoyed Crystal, but for some reason it just stopped working for me. No idea why.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:27 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see a lot of reviews in the play store saying the same. It's never given me any issues so IDK.
thatfatpolishdude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:01 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adguard premium, no root baby
frank14752 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:03 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only thing I've found are browsers that look sketchier than the ads, wish chome had extentions(?) like the destop.
DRW315 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:20 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FireFox for Android supports extensions ("add-ons")
frank14752 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it have ad blockers?
DRW315 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:27:14 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does! I used to use uBlock origin, but have since moved on to Bluehell Firewall. I may be wrong on this, but I believe the built in sync function in Firefox allows you to sync add-ons between mobile and desktop browsers (along with other settings), but I haven't actually tried it.
Natanael_L ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, ublock included
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:20 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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kdlt ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 19:17:30 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explained in picture form: https://imgur.com/gallery/oxtGRtW
SaintBaconator ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:38:16 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank God! This happens too much.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:46:04 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad this works on desktop too.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:10 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you have adblock on your desktop?
defet_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:32:23 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ads aren't the only thing that can cause abrupt layout changes. Loading images/elements, or anything embedded actually, can cause it.
hooliganmike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:23 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Youtube on desktop is really bad for this. When you load someone's channel there's a set of links at the top of the page to the channel's videos, playlists, discussion, about, etc but once the page finishes loading they disappear. This always makes me click on the intro video when I want to click on videos/playlists.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:25 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this not even the default. Chrome on Android is not by any means recent, but it will hasn't solved this issue. Stupid web..
mortenmhp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:47:50 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it isn't an easy thing to solve. As you may gather from other answers, it is far from perfect, and on several pages it may actually make things much worse.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:01:20 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Cylinsier ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:15:03 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is so clearly the reason. From a development standpoint, it would be easy to dedicate a block of space to the ad before it loads. Instead the ad reveals by shoving itself into already used space, normally right around a high traffic link or top nav, after a brief delay. There is no way that isn't intentional and it should be outlawed by the Geneva convention.
defet_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:13 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It becomes common knowledge in web development after a certain point, but interestingly enough this is something completely overlooked by newbies, and when implementing ads into your site you usually just insert their script and you don't want to deal with it anymore.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:49 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original post announcing this (not the XDA developer nonsense one) says they're still testing it to makes sure there are no adverse effects on sites.
vampirate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:58:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work for the offender that immediately came to mind (the verge)
1RedOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:30 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It did work for me. Instead of the page leaping all over, I could see the scroll bar briefly appear to reflect that the portion of the page I'm viewing has now changed, relative to the increased length of the document.
So it worked for me on that same site.
jago81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, I enabled on my phone. I relaunched. Went to Gamefaqs since they are notorious for this bullshit. It still jumps when the ads at top load. What am I doing wrong?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:45 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ads are just barely offscreen so still count as on screen? The feature is in beta anyways. Errors can be reported. Read article 4 more info.
Kmlkmljkl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:08 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is there any way to do this in firefox?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:48 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Install ublock origin.
Broseph_McTatertots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:31 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is better than anything Google showed at I/O.
Sinborn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:34 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about this for the reddit is fun in-app browser?
maccabird ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:22:53 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make sure to turn on smooth scrolling while you're there
1moe7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:51:36 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's on by default.
kip_diskin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:35 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is amazing, this should be on the front page.
Rampage646 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:26 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, this is sooooo annoying on pages filled with ads (android central) ๐
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:19 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Droid-Life grinds my gears, too.
trust_me_no_really ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is great. Worked well on the linked article, which jumped around when I tried to copy the link. :-( I had started to stop reading articles that jumped around. Unfortunately, now there is less incentive for the sites to optimize their pages. (assuming this goes mainstream)
kronaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:33 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just an info, you can use this in any chrome custom tabs browser aswell. (in my case-yubrowser for snapdragon)
moeburn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:26 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, on Android, I have to choose between Chrome, which allows me to have a browser that doesn't randomly have tics and seizures,
or Firefox, which allows me to have extensions like uBlock that give me a desktop-like adblock experience.
I WANT BOTH
S_A_N_D_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:55 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you use Adaway? You are rooted so that shouldn't be a problem and it will also block most ads in apps.
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
monsterjamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:24 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been testing the sites in this thread on Firefox and it seems that uBlock takes care of the page jumping. Does anyone know if there are any sites that page jump even with an ad blocker?
Tiquortoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:51 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I could enable this on sites I manage with a meta tag or something. At leat until I figure out the reason for the jumping.
RadioRoscoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So good! I would also like to see the same feature used for the notification bar. Some poorly designed apps expand their notification after initial load, causing a scroll jump.
Seankps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:51 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just tried it. Doesn't work so far but nice find
5cr0tum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:05 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you OP
lunarlon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:37 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has made my mobile experience approximately 1000% better. Thank you.
Synndrom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:07 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome ty
pinhead26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:27 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool now can we turn off space bar => scroll down?
boman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:40 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why isn't this the default behavior?
rodymacedo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:46 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably is in beta stage.
jian1234567890 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:27 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow
LarsonTx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:20 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has made CNN usable again. Thank you!
no-running ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:01 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want this to be a standard feature for all browsers, especially mobile. Glad to see Google is (Admittedly without much fanfare) leading the charge on this by testing it out. All the other browsers should step up to the plate, help shield the consumer from this ultra-annoying issue.
littlecolt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:06 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now if only I could enable this on my Skype contact list. It will come up, I will move to tap the top (most recent) conversation, and then the ad will fill in, pushing the top contact down, and I tap the ad. I'm sure they didn't intentionally design it that way to get clicks...
servvits_ban_boner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:13 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, why is this not the default setting?
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:48 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be in experimental stage
saichampa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:01 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried turning this on but I couldn't select links on some pages properly. Seems a bit buggy at the moment.
Fordzo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:48 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's done. The war is over. We can really go home.
MASTERTIERBLACKSMITH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:40 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, thank you so much! The feature isn't perfect yet, but I'm sure they'll flesh it out.
Mobile browsing is in such a bad spot right now. It's an exception to land on a page that isn't overloaded by all kinds of scripts. This feature will help out a lot with that.
ChopperNator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:46 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any idea if this can be done in Firefox?
richg0404 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:48 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for this tip. I can't pay a million dollars for it but I am grateful.
jerichodotm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:15 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome if this works
LeSpatula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:08 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the lazy:
chrome://flags/#enable-scroll-anchoring
sryidc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:50:38 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
How do I enable this on chrome for androidNever mind got it.
For those who were wondering but were too scared to ask because reddit would only answer with snarky unhelpful comments.
Paste (chrome://flags/#enable-scroll-anchoring into chrome) url bar and enable it.
mortenmhp ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:53:16 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read the article?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:55:06 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Reddit? Please.
davidgro ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:24:31 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently the Reddit website doesn't accept chrome:// links even with the correct link formatting. Apps might though.
sryidc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh whoops.
fixed it, thanks for the heads up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:57 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didnt work well on my n6p, the trade-off was an annoying touch delay and felt unresponsive at times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:52 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Endda is a God!
azaeldrm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:06:47 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not sure if I experience this when I'm on Chrome. Can anyone explain what this is and why is useful?
rodymacedo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:10:30 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You load some site.
You scroll down whilst it's still loading.
You see an interesting link, and get ready to tap on it
In a fraction of a second, some ad or image is loaded and the page scrolls back upward, and you end up clicking on something else.
azaeldrm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:17:22 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless your beautiful soul.
rodymacedo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:59:13 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is probably the best thing to happen since the coming of Christ.
Swanksterino ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:07:36 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just won a million dollar bounty posted about this the other day. Congrats! Can I borrow $20?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:54:18 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:17 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happens with images, too.
Udonedidit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:06:27 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enabled it on my phone but it still jumps while loading. Is it only for desktop?
kimjongonion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:18:01 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating read, it took me several re-reads to figure out the actual issue. If you "open tabs in background" you'll never even see it.
StormStooper ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:16:14 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You owe soemone a million dollars /u/Miles_Prowess
http://www.reddit.com/r/showerthoughts/comments/4q2npl/_/
JackDostoevsky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:18:42 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I don't really get it -- maybe I've never had this happen? Or else I'm having a hell of a time visualizing / understanding this, because I've watched both videos on the link and I don't really get it.
Does anyone have a before / after video? That might make it easier to understand what's going on with this.
EDIT: Maybe because I use AdAway and don't get any / many ads?
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:02 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You load up a website, say, Droif-Life
You scroll down whilst it's still loading the images/ads
You find a link interesting and you get ready to tap on it
In a fraction of a second, some ad/image loads and the page automatically scrolls upward, and you end up clicking on another link
Mech_BB-8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:20 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While we're on the subject of Google Chrome, does anyone know how to close all the tabs that are opened when you close the Chrome app?
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:20 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean?
Mech_BB-8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:39 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Android, when you close the Chrome app it doesn't close all of the tabs like it used to, instead when you reopen the Chrome app all of the tabs that you were viewing are still open.
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:05 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that's the expected behavior.
There's a "Close all tabs" option in the three-dot menu.
Mech_BB-8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:18:31 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'd be easier if I didn't have to do that every single time I closed the app, it gets really annoying after a while.
rodymacedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:31 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, you don't need to close any app. That's the worst thing you can do to your system.
Anyway, the reason Chrome does this, is that you won't lose your tabs if Android kicks it off from RAM on it's own. And for Chrome being one of the biggest RAM hogs, it certainly will, even on 4GB ram devices.
AmiriteClyde ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:11 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't really understand why I did this but I did. You guys could get some good trolling going on if you were so inclined.
styles662 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:30 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now if only a mobile solution