"Are we the baddies?"
I shouldn't have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it different for their website alone. I kid you not I almost didn't see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.
There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates "previous" or "next" by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn't want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.
It is called Gestures Navigation and replaces the three button navigation. It is an available option in the settings if your Android version supports it. Some people don't like it, personally I prefer it except for that one time some asshole website tries to take advantage of it.
On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the "back" button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.
A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.
The swiping motion that you are describing starts from the center of the screen outwards. I have no problems with that as you have said, it is standard behaviour across most platforms and doesn't conflict with other gestures.
The problem is that the site is using a swiping from the edge of the screen inwards instead. In most gestures-enabled Android devices this is a powerful gesture that has the same functionality as using the "back" button and its utility and functionality extends well beyond web browsers. It is incompetent design at best to try to make that gesture do something else on your website.
More importantly, I was visiting this page from a Lemmy link and the only way to get out and back to Lemmy when you have gesture enabled (short of force quitting the app entirely and reopening it) is to use that gesture. That website tries to hijack that feature to make you see more ads on their site.
It's a personal preference. Ever since I tried gesture I never went back to buttons. I don't even need to adjust my hand position to get out of a page and it's never been a problem until that site has put a different function exactly where my thumb was going to swipe.
Also, such a function you are suggesting would use a different gesture. You would have to swipe from the center-ish of the screen outwards instead of the other way around.
Apple's gestures though, I can't stand.
For a moment I thought it was referencing the fact that some people are never satisfied with the amount of money they have and always want more.
Or you know, a coin.
They're running out of people who are too dumb to understand they'll never see the color of the money they're promising.
How about a huge punishment to genociders?
Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.
It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren’t that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.
This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.
Spread the word.
Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.
It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.
This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.
Spread the word.
You're telling me they didn't even nail him to it after?