I just swiped accidentally from the top of the screen and uncovered an off-screen ad in Voyager. What is this and is this disclosed anywhere?

Edit: Why is this post being downvoted? This is a legitimate bug/issue. What an unwelcoming community…

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Ok. To be clear, the ads that I have seen so far are not for Github. They are for games and, from what I can tell, sites that offer downloads.

  • Mellow12@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There is no ad in the app. it’s a bug. If you want to re-create it. Follow a link to someplace like a GitHub project. You’ll notice a mobile ad banner at the top of the screen. Now go back to the voyager pwa interface. If you’re at the top and there are no other posts off of the top of the screen. Slowly swipe left or right and pull down. It’ll bring the banner from the previous page you visited into view.

  • FelipeFelop@discuss.online
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t swiping from the top of the screen bring down the notification shade in Android or the Notification Centre/control centre in iOS?

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s when you swipe from off-screen. This comes up when you swipe the top of the Voyager header.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, I did say the top of the screen because that’s where it is. I can also get a blank square to scroll up by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, right around the bottom of the app icons.

          I’m using the PWA.

    • Z4rK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s the case here, I think this is just some PWA bug, but you could in theory get paid for showing the ad without the hassle of users complaining about being shown the ad.

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        1 year ago

        If this was that simple then every website would be doing the same thing and we wouldn’t be bothered by ads at all.

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          1 year ago

          Most websites can track when the ad is displayed. Maybe this uses some PWA glitch to count these as viewed when they’re actually off-screen.

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            1 year ago

            Nah, there is no ad on Voyager. Absolutely none.

            I think you’re taking about this bug. The dev has already replied on that post.

  • radix@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What are the steps to reproduce this? I haven’t noticed it.

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      1 year ago

      Getting that now. So far, it’s just swiping downward and holding from the comments view of a post.

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        1 year ago

        Can’t reproduce it on either the PWA or the native app. It just reloads comments or pulls down my notifications screen (I’m on Android)

        :/

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          1 year ago

          Ditto here. Either I’m not doing it properly, or this doesn’t affect my build/OS.

  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I get this too, just for the developers FYI, not that I’m expecting anyone to fix a safari bug just to let you know of another side effect;

    If you in a community and click on a post that has the hidden banner ad bug then when you click back to the post list you can’t scroll up or down. If you do the swipe right and pull down to show the offending ad and close it then you can scroll through the posts again.