Are MacRumours Trolling Us?

[NickleNickNick]

I'm pretty sure that way back in 2012/13, MacRumours alerted me to the Ghosting/Screen-Burn issue on the very first retina MBP.

I bloody loved that machine. It didn't actually display those symptoms at the time, but a year lated it did. Because I knew the issue existed, I recognised it immediately and managed to get the screen replaced on my 2012 MBP-with retina display.

So I'm forever grateful to MacRumours. However, why are they trolling me. They keep on adding dead pixels to their site. Is it some sort of easter egg, or joke. Have I missed something? Every time I visit the site I keep trying to pull specs off my screen!

Anyone else? (see attached) No? Just me then! 😅

 

[Analog Kid]

My guess: Tracker pixels. Probably never noticed them before because you had a "light" screen color profile, but now the white tracker shows up against the black background.

(Edit: more likely iStorm is right below)

 

[russell_314]

My guess: Tracker pixels. Probably never noticed them before because you had a "light" screen color profile, but now the white tracker shows up against the black background.

Unfortunately, I think this is the correct answer. Maybe tracking pixels from Google or Meta that track everything you do online. Your best bet is just to pretend you never saw it and keep browsing the web. Once you start going down the rabbit hole you learn things you didn’t really want to know

 

[iStorm]

Those dots are where the ads are. Looks like you're blocking them and the ad blocker isn't doing a good job making the page look nice.

 

[StralyanPithecus]

You know…ads, if you don’t feed them, they die… I can email you several well alive pixels that I have spare if you want.

 

[NickleNickNick]

Those dots are where the ads are. Looks like you're blocking them and the ad blocker isn't doing a good job making the page look nice.

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Ah yes, you're exactly right! Apologies to MacRumours 😅

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Yes, ad blocker in dark mode. I have the same with Wipr/Safari but not with iOS16.