Thank you for this. Just added it to mobile Firefox. I agree with you and have found such elements very annoying since I've had a smartphone. When I was on iOS

Thank you for this. Just added it to mobile Firefox. I agree with you and have found such elements very annoying since I've had a smartphone. When I was on iOS I was constantly annoyed by this and assumed it was a childish attempt to get accidental clicks from ios users trying to access the page navigation. This article doesn't really inspire faith in web devs since they're staking out territory on my device as if they have say in what I do and do not do on their site. Ultimately I find the attempts to fight with apple or Google to do things the way the web dev wants just makes it worse for me. Apple had a functional means of getting around the page on mobile. Scroll bars have told me how far I was on a page since scrolling existed, and for cases where the page extends past the content, I can survive without a reading progress bar. I'm perfectly fine guessing on my own. I appreciate that web devs do some cool projects but don't just tack stuff on.