Don't hijack my mouse pointer

Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer by matteason on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:52AM (#48108331)

Google's design blog has a particularly egregious version of this: https://design.google/

The mouse blob morphs into the background of any buttons you hover over, which is technically impressive but annoying in practice

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Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer by reddalo on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:57AM (#48108404)

Wow, so much for "Google Design". It's probably one of the worst designed pages I've seen recently.

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Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer by sozforex on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:55AM (#48108371)

wow, this is one of the worst pages I've seen

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Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer by rukshn on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:08AM (#48108535)

Wow i didn't know Google did this as well, that's pretty sad.

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Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer by ASalazarMX on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:09PM (#48111124)

I thought, how bad it could be? It's actually very annoying since it doesn't even follow your mouse acceleration profile, the fancy cursor just does its own thing. It's a minor inconvenience, but very jarring at first.

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