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Taboola
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Taboola, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Page shifts under cursor so the Next button moves and users click ads instead2022-06-09
- Infinite scroll ad list forced user to email staff to get it stopped2021-01-25
- Carousels link to slow-loading one-page-per-image sites that fight ad blockers2018-12-16
- Recommendation widgets look like real related-article links, so users mistake them for site content2016-04-05