Intentional Page Janking

[jimji]

Do any of you think there are sites that use page janking intentionally to get more clicks?

Firstly, it might be wise for me to add a couple of Google's pages related to clicks that are deemed invalid:

Invalid clicks: Definition [support.google.com]

Definition of invalid traffic [support.google.com]

There is also a very interesting read here from the National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information:

Micro-Behavioral Accidental Click Detection System for Preventing Slip-Based Human Error [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

And we should go ahead and include this page:

[quora.com...]

And using the search tool here I found only this from 2009:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Personally, I think there is a major media entity that is using page janking intentionally to increase clicks, but I might get in trouble here if I were to state their name. But they were the ones that a few years ago were loading a page about becoming a member and there was no escape click. You either clicked the about membership link or you used your own tools to unload the page. They finally stopped doing it and I think the regulators in that nation forced them to stop it. I have more than a few records of that in my archives. It was really weird.

Now, though, I think they have this new trick going on and it is referred to as page janking. Most website management folks try to stop that from happening, but I think from my research there is at least one entity that is doing it intentionally.

I've also recently noticed another major media entity in another nation that changed their landing page and the scroll bar is just a tad off the screen to the right and if you are not careful you can click on an advert in the lower-right of that page. But that is a different trick and not true page janking, is it?

[ronin]

Do any of you think there are sites that use page janking intentionally to get more clicks?

I cannot say for sure, but it's absolutely within the realm of plausibility, because it's relatively elementary to simulate jank:

myElement.addEventListener('mouseover', (e) => {
 setTimeout(() => {
  e.target.parentNode.style.setProperty('transform', 'translateY(-200px)'), 200); 
 }
}, {once: true});

etc.

Translation from JavaScript to English:

When the mouse pointer is moved over myElement, wait for one fifth of a second and then move the parent element containing myElement (and, by extension, everything it contains) up the page by 200 pixels. Only do this once per page load.