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Don't hijack my mouse pointer
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Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer
#22Not 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.
Oh when you open an app to do a task and you get 5 new pop ups asking you to let them show you the new tool. Like, no. I don't have the bandwith right now. i'ld love to look at them but you chose the worse time. And then you can never go back to see what the tutorial was on the new feature.
Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer
#23I 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.
Yeah, it's not really that it's difficult and AI has made it easier. It's super easy, it's just anybody who knows what they're doing learned that it's bad decades ago.
Vibe coding didn't make it easier to change the cursor, it made it easier for incompetent people to write software.
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#24I like it how the author says how busy he is and how he finally snatched a few minutes out of this busy life to bring us this edict: don't hijack mouse pointers, or else! What next, don't use blink or marquee elements? Or else! Standard issue cursors are not that great in all environments, sometimes making the cursor massively big or doing other daft things to it make sense. It is all about context and golden rules d…
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Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer
#25Not 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.
There's an old, but good, set of browser plugins called "don't fuck with paste" that helps a little, at least.
Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer
#26Not 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.
Slack does this with links (they all point to Slack instead of the URL in the message) and it drives me nuts.
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#28I find it a bit surprising that there is no option in a browser to stop this kind of behavior.
There is even a suggestion on mozzila.org.
With this option placed it would just be another 'fun thing' you don't need to mind.
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#29Edge browser repositions your mouse cursor when you use the built-in screenshot tool.
Re: Don't hijack my mouse pointer
#30My other pet peeve is sites that override text selection and add a popup or something.
I select long text when I'm reading, I use it for focus and to keep track where I was if I need to switch to some other task in the middle.
In general, excessive customization is a net negative if it breaks expectations.