packtreefly 8 hours ago

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.

  • thoughtpalette 8 hours ago

    I thought the same. Glad to see it called out here. Maybe that's the post for next week...

    • mediumsmart 8 hours ago

      the scrolling is almost normal in librewolf - but that is with privacy badger blocking 14 trackers on that page ...

technion 9 hours ago

Marketing people have demanded this on many websites sites I've been involved with. Don't ask me why.

  • btown 7 hours ago

    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.

  • ndriscoll 8 hours ago

    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`.

  • dmix 9 hours ago

    What is it? Smooth scrolling?

    • bangaladore 9 hours ago

      From the html:

      // SmoothScroll for websites v1.2.1

      • hombre_fatal 8 hours ago

        You'd think the library would first check for macOS/iOS which already has far superior smooth scrolling.

      • braiamp 9 hours ago

        And this is why NoScript is a required extension. Matrix if you use Chromium based browsers.

p3rls 4 hours ago

Nah in my opinion it needs more acceleration, really why not just basically remap my mousewheel to home/end

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