alt Hacker NewsThe fact that they hijack scrolling to artificially limit scroll speed is insane to me. Feels like I'm trying to navigate through molasses
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I recently found a bypass for this. Put this in your ublock origin custom rules:
www.linkedin.com##main:style(font-size: 16px !important;)Imagine the MBA that had this idea. This is peak, distilled Microslop engineering right there.
The scroll jacking drives me nuts
Scroll hijacking like that feels like product brain rot. You can see the trade in plain sight they slow the user down so feed metrics look better, and the side effect is that keyboard nav, accessibility tools, and UI automation all get wierd in ways the people shipping it probably never have to touch.
Older laptops already choke on LinkedIn. Adding fake drag on top of a heavy page is like putting a speed bump in front of a stalled car.
Scroll down through jobs, hit next page. Page reloads at bottom of list on next page. Have to scroll up then scroll down, every page.
Baffles me ui like this exists in 2026.