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Yes, please stop. Changing the scrollbar is another unwanted overreach that ruins my user experience.

Oh believe me, for the information dense designs I’m working from, and needing to support a baseline desktop resolution, every pixel matters! I would never want to take that out on someone’s scrollbars tho. Scrollbars are sacred.

>information dense designs

All well and good for you but our author here is working with 40-50% whitespace anyway! Why the hell does he need to hide and minimize fundamental features to reclaim more fucking whitespace? Aaaaargh, designers are from a different species!

>Why does horizontal space matter on desktop anyway?

Because some people like to tile their screens into two halves.

We had scroll bars when desktops where 640x480.

The very idea of scrollbars was popularized with a desktop that was 512x342!