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Comment by dkjaudyeqooe | Hacker News Reader

First time probably ever that I've had to disable Javascript because of the creepy and distracting mouse thing. It really feels like you're invading other people's privacy, and if it doesn't, having things randomly move across your field of vision makes it difficult to read.

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Tonsky's website is infamous for making a mockery out of modern UX. That's also why toggling dark mode turns your pointer into a flashlight. I agree the mouses are distracting and I always use reader mode when browsing his site.

> It really feels like you're invading other people's privacy

Incredible, massive, outstand leap from "showing anonymized cursors" to "invading people's privacy"

The word “feels” is a cheatcode for enabling bunnyhop leaps from one idea to a distant and enticing destination.

It feels that way, anyway.

I had to open up devtools to be sure, but yeah, there's a websocket that constantly streams your cursor position up to the server and constantly streams everyone else's cursor positions down to you for rendering.

As someone who compulsively scrolls, selects and fidgets while reading, it actually made me quite self conscious to realize that other people would be distracted by my all-over-the-place mouse movements.

It is amazing. Evil genius vibes.

Sounds like your web browser vendor has decided to give websites your mouse cursor position :)

It's a joke, no?

Pretty annoying, but maybe that's what Niki is aiming for?

Oh, that's what that is? Holy shit that's annoying

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