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Don't hijack my mouse pointer

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Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

#11

Post by smallmancontrov »

venzaspa wrote: post #6

Not nearly as nasty as scroll hijacking so the page moves at a different speed than what I've instructed it to move at. Or pastejacking - when you're trying to copy a piece of text and the page makes you grab an entirely different string to what you'd highlighted and selected.

Focus-stealing, too! Especially bad with Microsoft products. I can picture exactly what happened: a thousand complaints of "I lost a window in the heaping mess of open work on my desktop" each turned into a ticket to add Just One More focus steal until the first minute of a Microsoft-powered desktop's existence is various projects fighting in a brawl to repeatedly steal focus from one another.

It was a major win for the internet that it took this power away from the application layer.

Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

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Post by stvltvs »

newscombinatorY wrote: post #8
venzaspa wrote: post #6

Not nearly as nasty as scroll hijacking so the page moves at a different speed than what I've instructed it to move at. Or pastejacking - when you're trying to copy a piece of text and the page makes you grab an entirely different string to what you'd highlighted and selected.

I'd add preventing text selection, right-clicking or pasting from the clipboard to the list. I hate when websites do that.

Especially egregious when preventing pasting into a password field. Do they want me to have a weak password so that I can manually type it in instead of pasting it from a password manager?

Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

#16

Post by datenyan »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #11
venzaspa wrote: post #6

Not nearly as nasty as scroll hijacking so the page moves at a different speed than what I've instructed it to move at. Or pastejacking - when you're trying to copy a piece of text and the page makes you grab an entirely different string to what you'd highlighted and selected.

Focus-stealing, too! Especially bad with Microsoft products. I can picture exactly what happened: a thousand complaints of "I lost a window in the heaping mess of open work on my desktop" each turned into a ticket to add Just One More focus steal until the first minute of a Microsoft-powered desktop's existence is various projects fighting in a brawl to repeatedly steal focus from one another. It was a major win for…

I have often thought about trying to figure out whatever Win32 API is responsible for focus stealing and neuter it down to something akin to

  void steal_focus_when_user_is_least_expecting() {
    // stub, much better :)
  }
It is the single most frustrating desktop computing experience.

Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

#18

Post by Bender »

shrx wrote: post #12
Bender wrote: post #4

ublock may be able to help, perhaps something like ##*:style(cursor: auto !important) Does anyone have a site to test it on?

Try https://dmnsgn.me/blog/from-glsl-to-wgsl-the-future-of-shade...

Looks like that one changes the pointer with javascript. I guess the only options are to not permit Javascript which breaks the site or use Reader View. Cntrl+Alt+R in Firefox.

Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

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Post by clickety_clack »

I remember when the internet was wild, young and fun, and this was something people did all the time. If you’re building Salesforce or SAP or Microsoft Word you should avoid it, but if you’re making a fun and weird website you should go to town.

Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

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Post by T_Potato »

I use a very large mouse cursor because I hate when I have to search for the thing. Sometimes during meetings I get brain dead comments about it. I make it bigger in spite when I get a comment about it. Then in meetings they complain that they can't find their mouse pointer.... /rant
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