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The bar shows up briefly while scrolling. I can't remember the last time I clicked on a scrollbar to scroll... That said, I'm sure some do but without playing with it, we don't know if it appears if you hover the mouse over that area or not. It's one of those you gotta play with it but for me not an issue

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Yeah, but user might already be on his way out - not seeing what he was looking for - without making any interaction with website.

The only way I can see it work, is to show scrollbar on every mouse movement. But than I don't see any benefit of hiding it in first place.

However I agree with you that we will see how it works out, when people start using it.

The worst case scenario is probably increased bounce rate on some websites, decreased conversion rate, and some confusion for users.

Too soon for these suppositions.

It's like the "users don't scroll" myth. If a user is reading to the bottom of the page he will flick it up to see if there's more below. And it's the designer's job to make sure that the right content is findable above or below the fold.

I agree with designer's responsibility to maximize "findability" of content - however it's simply impossible to design for every single resolution and size of window. Until now, at least scrollbar was always there, no matter what resolution (if content was bigger), indicating more content. I agree it's to soon to predict effects of that change, and I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to understand what would be the benefits/reasoning behind the decision to change standard GUI element that already worked well.

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