They like refresh the page or something as I'm typing and the text box goes away and my finger inevitably hits an ad. Anyone else have this? It's annoying as hell

Yup. Same

Nope. I use Brave Browser. Comes with dark mode, ad blocker, built-in VPN

www.brave.com

It does it with the main menu drop down too. I always accidentally click "reviews" and I DO NOT want to go to that page

Really clever 'engineering' by webby to make me constantly click the dogshit banner ads

It's called a "dark pattern" Digital marketing 101

Carve is the architect

If you ever needed evidence that civilization is about to collapse, just look at digital marketing.

I won't be doing that

Don't have to look further than lurk

I don't blame you. It's all shit.

Doesn't happen to me. I wouldn't put up with that bullshit

pretty clever post loading system to create inadvertent clicks

All it needs is a min-height on the div that golds the ad. I could see it being intentionally not added to get inadvertent clicks also, agreed