This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
And of course they want a credit card on file for "age verification" ๐ or they won't let you chat with the bots
synthespian noun, trademark in US
a computer-generated three-dimensional character, either in a wholly animated film or in one that is a mixture of live action and computer animation.
Hey, Calculon's back!
I actually like that word. Feels like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.
The Adventures of Flox Spanner 2209, by Donovan Cove
Chapter 1: The Synthespian Uprising
Or like it's how Poe from Altered Carbon would describe himself.
This is an AI sex chat service, 1-900 numbers from the 80's brought online, hahahahahaha. I'm sure there's a market for it, but ..... yeah, wow.
I always click on annoying ads just to fuck with their ad budget, this appeared after clicking on a fake download button.
Just curious, how does this affect companies' ad budget if you disinterestedly click on ads?
In theory, whomever is running the ad pays per click or w/e. In practice, it does nothing but expose your own system to potential risk.
Because someone paid for that click, and will spend more money because of "how many clicks" they got.
Basically, clicking on ads you aren't interested in wastes someone's money (and makes money for the site, depending on how the ads are bought/placed).
That assumes they are paying perclick, and you are exchanging your time for their cost. If it makes you happy because it pays for the site, go for it, but you are probably costing the ad buyers a tiny fraction of a penny per click.