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The most annoying ones for me are the ones that trigger when your cursor leaves the tab. TheHackerNews.com (unrelated to HN) does this constantly. Would it be t
by franga2000 9y ago
The most annoying ones for me are the ones that trigger when your cursor leaves the tab. TheHackerNews.com (unrelated to HN) does this constantly. Would it be too drastic to just disallow mousemove events? I see no good use for them outside of needless analytics and bugging users when they try to leave your site.
- solarkraft 9y agoNot too drastic. If websites continue to display their malicious incompetence this will happen.
- LukeShu 9y agoEspecially if a button isn't pressed. Allow mousemove between mousedown and mouseup.
- degenerate 9y agoI like this solution, smart.
- cpeterso 9y agoBut what about web games that want to track your mouse cursor? Maybe the browser could restrict mousemove events to handlers on page elements that the user has clicked on? But then web developers would probably add an event handler on the page itself and receive all mousemove events again.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoFor me it's the ones that go SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER when I open the tab for the first time - dude, I haven't even read your content, why are you giving me this.