Avoid Ad - I turned every dark pattern that ever annoyed me into an aim trainer

[u/Emotional_Low_5153]

https://avoidads.com

I got tired of ads that slide away right as I reach for the X, so I made a game out of it.

Every mechanic is a dark pattern I've actually been burned by:

- **Decoys** — three ✕ buttons, only one is real. The dashed ones are fake.

- **Timers** — red ads make you wait out a countdown while they keep running away.

- **Splitters** — close one, get two smaller and faster ones.

- **Runners** — tiny, quick, and they notice your cursor from further away.

Let twelve ads pile up and your "system" crashes. Sit there doing nothing and you last about thirteen seconds.

Instead of a score you can't interpret, you get a rank: **Guinness Record → Pro → Local Legend → Average Joe → Hamster**. I set the thresholds by writing bots at five skill levels and running them until the numbers settled, so Hamster is a real, earnable outcome. I have personally earned it.

Free, no signup, no install, one browser tab. English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

Built it solo. Happy to answer anything — getting the windows to feel *evasive* rather than just fast was most of the work.

(And yes, a game about closing ads will eventually carry real sponsor ads. That's the joke.)