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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by snowwrestler on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:20AM (#18922113)
In terms of usability, vertical space almost doesn't matter anymore. The vast majority of people have an interface that makes vertical scrolling effortless, whether it's a trackpad gesture, mouse scroll wheel, or touchscreen drag / flick.

Horizontal scrolling is harder to do and less common/conventional (chicken and egg as to why, but it's the reality today).

You might not like the way it looks, but it's clearly better for usability to spend more vertical space in order to prevent horizontal scrolling.

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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by wlesieutre on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:36AM (#18922272)
I don't know, I guess this just doesn't seem unreadable to me:

https://i.imgur.com/XROwES3.png

It's a list making fun of Amazon's stupid duplicate product recommendations and you don't need to scroll horizontally to get that out of it.

Screenshot from an iPhone SE which is a damn small viewport by 2019 standards.

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