On: Don't hijack my mouse pointer

[matteason]

Google's design blog has a particularly egregious version of this: https://design.google/

The mouse blob morphs into the background of any buttons you hover over, which is technically impressive but annoying in practice

[reddalo → matteason]

Wow, so much for "Google Design". It's probably one of the worst designed pages I've seen recently.

[ASalazarMX → matteason]

I thought, how bad it could be? It's actually very annoying since it doesn't even follow your mouse acceleration profile, the fancy cursor just does its own thing. It's a minor inconvenience, but very jarring at first.

[sozforex → matteason]

wow, this is one of the worst pages I've seen

[rukshn → matteason]

Wow i didn't know Google did this as well, that's pretty sad.