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Comment by Kaze404

5 years ago

> to remain performant, modem sites remove elements that have been scrolled too far off the page

This is done to remain performant specifically when the website thinks infinite scrolling is a good idea. In my experience it very rarely is, with the Ctrl+F thing being just one of the reasons why.

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