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I came here to complain about something similar, the excessive use of box shadows on both the top and the sides. It made the text horrible to read on mobile, if it not for Firefox's Readability mode.

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I saw the weird subtle pattern and first freaked out that my monitor's backlight was failing (high flicker rate revealing LCD refresh patterns). I also was playing a video with the browser in the background and it was choppy, and I first thought it was my video player messing up until I realized the web page had some pointless background animation.

I just tested again and even my cursor gets jump over the page. Amazing they'd do this for such a subtle, useless effect.

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