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Bit off topic, but what's the reasoning behind messing with the native browser scroll here. Almost gets me motion sick when scrolling through this article.
by bangaladore 2y ago
Bit off topic, but what's the reasoning behind messing with the native browser scroll here. Almost gets me motion sick when scrolling through this article.
- technion 2y agoMarketing people have demanded this on many websites sites I've been involved with. Don't ask me why.
- dmix 2y agoWhat is it? Smooth scrolling?
- bangaladore 2y agoFrom the html: // SmoothScroll for websites v1.2.1
- braiamp 2y agoAnd this is why NoScript is a required extension. Matrix if you use Chromium based browsers.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoYou'd think the library would first check for macOS/iOS which already has far superior smooth scrolling.
- ndriscoll 2y agoMaybe the industry should develop a secret header we can all have our browser send to disable this sort of thing. Like `X-Shibboleet: true`.
- jeroenhd 2y agoA uBlock rule for smooth scrolling libraries can do wonders, though on some pages that breaks all JS scripts because of brittle JS assuming certain objects are magically instantiated.
- btown 2y agoMy hypothesis on this is that marketers who have personal MacBooks but are forced to use Windows computers at work, with mice with notched scroll wheels, find JS-driven smooth scrolling to be superior to the native snapping experience they see at work on many websites. But it wreaks havoc on people who already have computers with native high-resolution trackpads. Alas, the folks at big companies care more about their at-work than at-home experience, and it's been cargo-culted to smaller companies now as well. The conversation "detect if there is indeed a trackpad being used" never even comes up.
- packtreefly 2y agoIt is the height of irony to me that a blog post complaining about clickjacking is presented on a website that is guilty of scrolljacking.
- thoughtpalette 2y agoI thought the same. Glad to see it called out here. Maybe that's the post for next week...
- mediumsmart 2y agothe scrolling is almost normal in librewolf - but that is with privacy badger blocking 14 trackers on that page ...
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- p3rls 2y agoNah in my opinion it needs more acceleration, really why not just basically remap my mousewheel to home/end
- beaugunderson 2y agothis one is especially bad since they somehow broke pinch zoom as well, it now scrolls in addition to zooming