Comment by bangaladore
12 hours 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.
12 hours 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.
It is the height of irony to me that a blog post complaining about clickjacking is presented on a website that is guilty of scrolljacking.
I thought the same. Glad to see it called out here. Maybe that's the post for next week...
the scrolling is almost normal in librewolf - but that is with privacy badger blocking 14 trackers on that page ...
Marketing people have demanded this on many websites sites I've been involved with. Don't ask me why.
My 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.
Maybe the industry should develop a secret header we can all have our browser send to disable this sort of thing. Like `X-Shibboleet: true`.
What is it? Smooth scrolling?
From the html:
// SmoothScroll for websites v1.2.1
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Nah in my opinion it needs more acceleration, really why not just basically remap my mousewheel to home/end