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U<\/span>sing your phone at home is easy. At least if you have all five fingers. I\u2019ve become quite adept at clicking with the tip of my nose, but that\u2019s a topic I\u2019d rather address another time. To use your phone safely at home, all you have to do is try not to drop it in the toilet, avoid putting anything in the oven while lying in bed scrolling through Instagram stories, and always keep it away from windows if you live on a high floor. Here\u2019s a self-help tip: your insurance might cover a smashed phone, but the dentures of passersby, inexplicably, aren\u2019t covered.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, the real problem with phone use arises in the summer, when we spend hours using them under a blinding sun, on the beach, or even on a sailboat, while trying to keep the boom from snapping your head off. Using your phone these days requires prudence, patience, and a lot of concentration, and that\u2019s practically impossible thanks to the developers\u2019 relentless efforts to drive users crazy. I\u2019m convinced that nearly 90 percent of anxiety problems in the developed world are directly caused by those damned pop-up windows, which become incredibly unbearable in the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, I tried to make a bank transfer from the beach, like some kind of Elon Musk, just going for it. When I opened the app, my bank asked for a code I could barely remember, but before I could even enter the first digit, a pop-up appeared, forcing me to tap \u201cupdate app\u201d just to open the program. I reckon I update this damn app about 16 million times a day.<\/span><\/p>\n

I updated and re-entered the code, and it worked <\/span>\u2014 thank God \u2014 so my bank account opened, and when I was about to click on the damn \u201cmake a transaction\u201d box, another pop-up appeared offering me a mortgage with great advantages, so I accidentally clicked \u201capply,\u201d when what I meant to say was \u201cshove it where the sun don\u2019t shine.\u201d When I tried to undo the application, the whole application crashed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I repeated the process, this time I managed to click the \u201cx\u201d to close the mortgage ad, but before I could click \u201cmake a transaction\u201d again, another pop-up appeared saying \u201cRemember that we will never ask for your passwords over the phone,\u201d with two buttons to choose from: \u201cI understand\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t understand, I\u2019m an idiot.\u201d I didn\u2019t have time to stop my finger and clicked \u201cI didn\u2019t understand,\u201d so a 10-minute video tutorial opened, impossible to close. I left my phone playing the video, went for a swim (considered hanging myself from a palm tree), and when I came back, the girl was still talking to me on the screen as if I were a complete idiot: \u201cRemember never to give your password to a stranger who approaches you on the street shouting, \u2018Give me your password, it\u2019s an emergency!\u2019 They probably just want to steal your data\u2026\u201d What a perceptive girl!<\/span><\/p>\n

I repeated the routine for the third time, and I was finally able to tap on \u201cmake a transaction,\u201d but then another pop-up appeared: \u201cTo make a transaction, you must be sure you want to make a transaction.\u201d Although I was starting to have doubts, I tapped \u201cnext,\u201d and after a good while loading (I guessed it, but I didn\u2019t see it, because by then the sun was at a right angle and all I could see on my screen was the reflection of my own frustrated face, somewhere between the Tasmanian Devil and Wile E. Coyote after falling off a cliff), I was able to select the \u201cbank transfer\u201d option. I pressed the button, and as I started filling in the initial details of the transaction, another pop-up attacked me, this time telling me I had to generate an alternative access code. This was a circular pop-up; if you clicked \u201cOK,\u201d you were forced to create an access code, a process that required you to access data in the app that was inaccessible because the pop-up itself was covering it. And if you chose \u201ccancel,\u201d the message was even more disheartening: \u201cThe transaction has been canceled. Thank you for using this app.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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After several attempts without seeing a single thing on the screen and overcoming two blocks (\u201cWe have detected repeated activity consistent with a cyberattack and are proceeding to block access for 5 minutes\u201d), and with my hand shaking (I\u2019m still not entirely sure I didn\u2019t accidentally transfer several million dollars to a bunch of random account numbers), I decided to give up, surrender. I don\u2019t care if I have to carry the money myself, on my knees, with the bills in my mouth, and with shackles on my ears.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was finally exiting the app when another pop-up interrupted me: \u201cCould you rate our app from 0 to 5?\u201d With all the hatred in the world, I hit the number \u201c0,\u201d a huge mistake: \u201cPlease describe in as much detail as possible what led you to rate your experience with us negatively.\u201d All I could manage was to type \u201cyour damn popups are haunting me\u201d and submit. A little while later, the only response I received was a friendly automated message, an email: \u201cWe are reviewing your inquiry and will respond within 3-4 days.\u201d Meanwhile, we encourage you to participate in our customer satisfaction survey.\u201d Customer satisfaction? Really?<\/span><\/p>\n

But look, if you think the craze for pop-ups with tiny close buttons impossible to see outdoors is limited to my bank, you\u2019re wrong. My Bluetooth scale\u2019s app requires me to watch three video game ads, each over 15 seconds long, every time I want to weigh myself. After 15 seconds, you can close the ad, but if you don\u2019t hit the tiny words \u201cskip ad\u201d exactly, you\u2019ll be buying the game through an in-app purchase. And if you go back, you\u2019ll see a chubby, cartoonish king again, besieged by distressing, murderous bricks, trying to figure out how to survive the castle\u2019s deadly constriction. In the game, you\u2019re the king. I haven\u2019t had the patience to get through all that and actually weigh myself for months now, which is probably why I\u2019m thinner than ever, at least compared to the king in the video game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, thanks to my usual summertime clumsiness with my fingers, I\u2019m also hounded by pop-ups from my e-book app, notifications from every transportation company on Earth (my favorite is, \u201cDid you know we\u2019re zero-emissions?\u201d and, to my surprise, there\u2019s only one button that says \u201cAccept.\u201d There isn\u2019t one that says \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn.\u201d). And, of course, I\u2019m constantly bombarded with pop-ups advertising the featured deals from one of those cheap, low-quality online marketplaces. They always begin with a message as believable and reassuring as: \u201cCongratulations, Itxu! You\u2019ve just won $600 in prizes! Would you like to crack the Lucky Egg and win another $600?\u201d And I must admit that, right next to the \u201cAccept and Crack\u201d button, I always find myself wishing there were another one that said, \u201cNo, you\u2019re the ones cracking my balls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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