I don’t get so much of a rainbow effect, and the shimmering edges of mine are more hairy than blobby if that makes sense. But yeah, pretty good representation.
Note to non-migraine-enjoyers: the grey blob in the video isn’t grey, it’s just an area you can’t see in. Your brain tries to fill it in the best it can, as it does with any eye damage, so you might see a blank region on a page when there’s actually text there, for example. This means the shimmery bit isn’t at the edge of a grey blob, but a strange nothing-zone of fuzziness where things that “enter” the zone may or may not vanish, and which feels distorted and wrong, like a fun-house mirror and a kaleidoscope at once. If they get big enough they kinda go blank, but still aren’t really grey—I’m not sure what color you’d call them.
(At least for me—maybe some people really see a grey splotch?)
Interesting how it can be different from person to person, mine looks nothing like that. For me it is not colourful, the border feels more like gray TV static than the rainbow in the video. Or sometimes it feels like a black and white stripe pattern, or sort of zigzag stripes that flash between black and white.
I should say, to get the real effect of what it looks like, keep your eyes pointed at the center of the screen (the shimmers are often in your peripheral vision and you can’t look directly at them)
I just want a feature that plays new music I've never heard, based on things I've liked in the past, and doesn't have a bunch of bullshit suggestions based on their advertising, or a stupid fake DJ voice interjecting.
and while we're at it, please stop harassing me to install your "app" that is just a browser wrapped in spyware. (looking at you reddit, and your annoying user hostile features like not adjusting the browser based view on ios for the notch/island in iphones).
Reddit actually has a particularly cursed combination of the two: "Log in or install app to see this content".
No idea why the (SFW!) content I wanted to look at was considered "18+" in the first place; it was just a discussion of a company that I was curious about. I can't help but think that they're getting more and more liberal in applying this content flag, since it must drive either account creations or app installs (and often both). I even have a Reddit account, but now I just can't be bothered to follow any search results there anymore.
The web is really getting smaller and smaller by the day, with large platforms gobbling up content and engagement under the guise of being "just another website/forum/blog/..." at first, but inevitably ending behind a paywall, login-wall, or in a mandatory app install, and often even all three.
I'm concerned that they have phone-home features that will go haywire if they haven't been able to connect for too long. If I could be convinced that wouldn't happen, then I'll use whatever violence is needed to disable such features physically.
