I came across a 2-for-1 in my usual pursuits of personal-screen-space offenses and bizarre personal-performance-capitalism. This PC mag article (a lame one) had one of those subscription pop-ups, but unlike the usual ones there was no way to exit out of it at first. My initial response was to refresh the page because I didn’t want to deal with it, and then I realized that I should document it for this. So I scrolled around until it came back (noticing part 2 of this), and I’m not sure if my empty-space email entering prompted the X in the top-right corner, or if there was some kind of automatic time-out. Anyways, sites seem to be getting bolder and/or more desperate with the hijacking of user space-time. The second thing happening here (illustrated by the gif at the bottom) is the redundant progress bar (do some people not have a scroll bar indicator? maybe it’s different on mobile?) across the top of the screen, running horizontally. It’s bold and red and maybe theoretically gives the same satisfaction of a loading bar going to completion, I imagine a certain type of person would really want to scroll/read until they made it all the way.
