Comments on: Cursor grabbing links https://habitablezone.com/2012/05/21/cursor-grabbing-links/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2012/05/21/cursor-grabbing-links/#comment-15239 RobVG Tue, 22 May 2012 14:56:17 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=15405#comment-15239 Yup. Not only trying to shut off the video, but also looking for the close button on the ad covering the site. Yup. Not only trying to shut off the video, but also looking for the close button on the ad covering the site.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/05/21/cursor-grabbing-links/#comment-15236 TB Tue, 22 May 2012 13:45:13 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=15405#comment-15236 A huge number of sites do this. There are also many sites where underlined words are not links to something useful, but just search buttons that search the site for things involving that word. Or worse, pop an ad up related to the word. At least for some of these you have to click to activate it. "Scrollover" crap includes headers that pop up an ad or something when you go past it, which I do a lot when moving between the articles and the controls at the top. Then there's the movie that starts up when you open the page, often somewhere way down on the page so you have to either listen to it or run over the whole page to find it and shut it up. These aren't amateur sites, either. Mostly professional news sites. A huge number of sites do this. There are also many sites where underlined words are not links to something useful, but just search buttons that search the site for things involving that word. Or worse, pop an ad up related to the word. At least for some of these you have to click to activate it.

“Scrollover” crap includes headers that pop up an ad or something when you go past it, which I do a lot when moving between the articles and the controls at the top. Then there’s the movie that starts up when you open the page, often somewhere way down on the page so you have to either listen to it or run over the whole page to find it and shut it up.

These aren’t amateur sites, either. Mostly professional news sites.

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