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> Many browsers hide the scroll bar

On touch devices, yes. On desktop, not really. I think Safari on OS X is the only one, all others (basically everything on Windows and Linux) always show scroll bars on scrollable content. And on touch devices, users tend to try scroll quite readily, so I don't think clipped content is a necessity.

However, artificially stretching content to the fold is still against the idea of a (scrollable) website.

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On the Mac, virtually all applications, including the major web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox), do this. You can change it with a setting, but the system default is to auto-hide all scrollbars.

Chrome on macOS hides scroll bars, too.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"

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This setting in terminal will always show scroll bars.

Also this:

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars: Always

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