I normally use the Aurora frontend, but I used Google’s app to check something. I couldn’t help but notice that when I swiped and then let go, the page would barely move past the point I had let go. It had no momentum whatsoever. As soon as I got past the ads, scrolling was back to normal and the exact same flinging motion would send me down by at least a screen’s worth.

Has anyone else noticed this?

  • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    Yes. Same has been happening on YouTube for me. It’ll stick right on an ad.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I thought I was the only one!

    Here I’m using a Google branded phone and yet some Google services are slow/sluggish? How embarrassing.

    Apple is scrutinizing details like bevels and curves, where Google doesn’t give a fuck about how their one apps work on a flagship phone?

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Playing devil’s advocate here, the old store system I worked for always inserted cross-sellers at each page-break, too. It was just how the underlying code worked, it first loaded a batch of products, checked whether the user was supposed to see them, then figured out cross-sellers for it.

      But by nature of that, if you say load 50 products at a time, you end up with those 50 being in the list of returned objects found, followed by the 5 (in our case) ads. So by nature, once someone scrolls to the ads, a short jitter happens as the system loads the next 50 objects for sale (and the next 5 crosssellers).

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It might just be that the ad is bogging down the device, rather than a change to the scrolling behaviour. I’ve definitely had my phone heat up noticeably when it’s trying to load an ad.