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I seriously don't understand why some people seem to like position:sticky so much. It's really offensive when the element I'm trying to scroll out of the way refuses to leave and clings to the edge, almost mockingly.

I've had a "replace sticky with relative" filter in my MITM proxy since the day that CSS misfeature showed up in browsers.

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position: sticky; makes tons of sense for web apps. It’s very common to want toolbars or menus always visible. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would claim that, for example, MS Word would be better if you needed to scroll to the top of the document to see any of the controls.

I don’t think anyone in their right mind would claim that, for example, MS Word would be better if you needed to scroll to the top of the document to see any of the controls.

That's position:fixed or perhaps position:absolute, not position:sticky. And honestly, the former two are far less annoying to experience because they're there from the beginning, while the latter trick you into thinking they can be scrolled out of sight, but don't.

I'm convinced that position:sticky wouldn't exist if browsers weren't beholden to advertising traffic. Someone needs to create a rival foundation to Mozilla, with some advertising and transaction processing chops, figure out how to sustain enough revenue to tax deduct enough smart promotion, and ideally, I'd personally wish, fork Pale Moon.

The German Zugabeverordnung law was very strict against any "free" commercial offer tied to the obscuring of linked purchases. But instead of being extended to embrace the creation of sponsored funnels providing free entertainment websites, as is probably now long forgotten but fallacious doctrine, the internet instead made "free", "free".

https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/marketing-techniques/...

https://competition-attorneys.de/lawyer/zugabeverordnung-ger...

The law was scrapped in 2004, unlikely [ed] not [/ed] coincidentally with establishing peak web commercial libertarian lobbying, the more political and in earnest post dotbomb.

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