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God I absolutely abhor "UI takeovers":

Not allowing text selection, disabling scrolling where there should be scrolling, disabling autocomplete/text substitutions, or corrupting the Back/Forward buttons...

Websites are guilty of this more often than apps, which usually just do whatever the device OS allows.

Even worse are the outright LIES that even Apple has been guilty of for a while now:

• Refreshing a webpage doesn't really refresh it. (it's less fresh than entering the URL in a new tab/window)

• Going back doesn't really go back. (It loads the URL again..absolutely disgusting on YouTube when you want to go back to an interesting thumbnail you noticed too late, but it's not there anymore)

• Force-quitting an app doesn't really quit it. (Now iOS still gives them a noticeable bit of time to ponder which is annoying when you open that app again right away)

Not to mention the outright privacy and security violations like textboxes that send keystrokes home.



I did write on scrollbars too: https://aartaka.me/scrollbar.html




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