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> (btw, just checked for Firefox and Safari, and the scrollbar is visible at all times, unless the website explicitly hides it)

There is a setting for this called "Always show scrollbars" and I know it defaults to off for me. The underlying about:config rule is specific to GTK though, so this may be platform-specific.

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I was checking this on macOS. I have system scrollbar setting set to "automatic". Never changed scrollbar settings in Safari/Firefox, so it works like this for me by default, not sure why.

But also I don't really get how people are fine with hiding the scrollbar, but prefering to see the progress meter always visible for text, when the scrollbar conveys mostly the same information (except some edge cases when the footer is long I guess).

Not that it's important at all, I'm just at loss and it's not the first time I'm getting a signal that sometimes I simply don't understand people. But of course that's fine.

The scrollbar is per-page, the meter is per-article. Lots of blogs where I see a progress meter also have multiple articles on one page, sometimes even infinite scroll. I personally find the meters kind of superfluous, but they don't bother me since they usually stay out of the way.

Can you paste me an example website which uses a progress meter to track reading progress across multiple articles on one page?

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