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🖥️ Deceptive web blocking 🐭 Catching mice 🐭 To trap mice
mousetrapping

mousetrapping

9.8
A dishonest way websites stop you from leaving by using pop-ups or redirects
  • noun
  • Texting
translation icon : táctica de atrapar
  • The company was criticized for mousetrapping users with constant pop-up windows and fake alerts.

Examples

  • Some websites use mousetrapping to keep visitors from closing their pages or navigating away.

  • After experiencing mousetrapping, she decided to avoid that website in the future.

  • Avoid mousetrapping tactics when designing your website.

  • The site used mousetrapping to keep users engaged.

  • Some websites use mousetrapping tactics to prevent users from easily leaving their pages.

  • The online retailer was called out for employing mousetrapping methods that overwhelmed visitors with pop-ups.

  • Many users reported frustrating experiences with mousetrapping while trying to navigate away from certain sites.

Antonyms

to exit
125 1.0

To go out of a place or leave a situation

How Intrusive

mousetrapping
  • Texting
9.8
pop-up
7 3.4

Surface Forms

mousetrapping singular
mousetraps plural

Morphology

mousetrapping = mousetrap (opaque) = mouse + trap + ing

The form suggests a mouse-trapping action, but the website-blocking tactic is a specialized metaphor whose meaning is not directly predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Mousetrapping combines mouse and trap, originally meaning a way to 'catch' a small animal. Think of a website that 'catches' visitors like a trapped mouse so they cannot leave, which is why the word means making it hard for users to close or leave a page.