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Similar to this, I noticed a pretty crappy thing Google are doing on Youtube on the ipad last night. I did a youtube search and went to tap the first result only to have it replaced with an ad just before I clicked it, taking me through to some ad.

I experimented with this a couple of times, both times I did a search, and about 0.5-1 second after the page loaded the first search result was shifted down and its position taken by an ad link that looked the same as a search result.



Similar annoying thing with video pre-roll ads on Youtube: I'm used to pausing videos by clicking on them but when the video is an ad then it opens the link of the ad instead of pausing the video.


This same thing has happened to me with some Android apps using Google ads, such as Podkicker.


I also hate that, websites should reserve the space for ads, to prevent this FOUC-alike effect to happen :/


some browser extensions do this injecting ads. not saying thats the answer but also an alternate possibility.




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