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I feel like scroll hijacking is a recent thing, or at least I've started noticing it a lot more in the last few years. It's honestly so jarring 90% of the time,
by sk0g 7y ago
I feel like scroll hijacking is a recent thing, or at least I've started noticing it a lot more in the last few years. It's honestly so jarring 90% of the time, that my initial instinct is to reassess how badly I want to read the content!
I do not have a problem with it for full page scrolls though, which I know a lot of people hate. Or that one page that showcases the scale of the solar system by forcing you to scroll for ages!
- oefrha 7y agoIIRC parallax scrolling on the web became a thing roughly a decade ago. Initially only the cool kids were doing it, and the reaction was usually: cool, didn’t know you could do that on a web page. Fast forward a couple years, everyone and their mom is doing it for all kinds of wrong reasons (like in this case it’s used to load the previous/next article — if I want more I can click on a prev/next link, thanks) with crappy implementations, it’s tiring and hostile.