Because you aren’t using an ad blocker.
Very close, but you should somehow represent the fact that the entire area around the close button - anything that isn’t a black pixel - is a big “open a pop-up window to the advertiser’s site” button.
Website: I knew you wanted some boner pills!
We all know why.
Whoever decided this should be the mobile “standard” should be dragged out back into the alley and shot.
So you won’t close the ad. Glad I could help.
OH THAT’S WHY
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What’s really fun is how YouTube has an X to remove the videogames (!?) it has. And tapping on it doesn’t do anything other than change the buttons color for a split second.
And the x moves to a different solar system at the last possible second.
And even if you manage to hit it you are thrown in a slightly different looking add of the same thing, with a different x button. And guess what? Theres a third one right behind that x