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Why does my mouse cursor disappear when I move it over this website? It makes it virtually impossible to use...

I can't get the page to load reliably enough to test, but I saw the same issue.

Are you running the Dark Reader extension by chance?

I think the author didn't test with Dark Reader, which is fair, but they override the cursor, which is not fair. Please don't do that, it's not as cool as you think it is and it breaks things for your users.

Not running Dark Reader, but am using uMatrix

custom cursor; dark bg - dark cursor; so yea; see how the cursor transitions when on text by flipping sideways to blue; idk I thought its 'cute';

The cursor is completely invisible for me, whether over text or links or anywhere else

oh yess.

look at this,

  :root {
      ...
      cursor: none !important
    }

  html {
      ...
      cursor: none !important
    }

and this,

  * {
      cursor: url(cursor.19bbb4e3.png), none !important [0]
  }


  #cursor {
      background: rgba(200, 200, 255, .2);
      transition-property: width, height, border-radius, transform;
      transition-timing-function: ease-out;
      transition-duration: .1s;
      pointer-events: none;
      transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
      border-radius: 100%;
      position: absolute;
      left: -1000px;
      z-index: 99999;
      width: 36px;
      height: 36px
    }

[-1] : https://azumbrunnen.me/main.39afc03c.css [0] : https://azumbrunnen.me/cursor.19bbb4e3.png

He kinda messed up, mayb?

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