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.

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

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

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

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`.

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.

What is it? Smooth scrolling?

From the html:

// SmoothScroll for websites v1.2.1

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

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

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.

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

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