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bangaladore 12 days 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.

packtreefly 12 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 12 days ago | parent [-]

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

mediumsmart 12 days ago | parent [-]

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

technion 12 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

btown 12 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 12 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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`.

jeroenhd 11 days ago | parent [-]

A 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.

dmix 12 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What is it? Smooth scrolling?

bangaladore 12 days ago | parent [-]

From the html:

// SmoothScroll for websites v1.2.1

hombre_fatal 12 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

braiamp 12 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

p3rls 12 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

beaugunderson 11 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this one is especially bad since they somehow broke pinch zoom as well, it now scrolls in addition to zooming

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