Topic on Talk:Page Previews/Flow

I use two-finger trackpad scrolling on a MacBook, and since previews pop up at the cursor, and since my cursor is always near what I am reading, the popup always covers what I am reading and ignites a rageflare in my brain reminding me to disable javascript and reload the page*. It occurs to me that there would be no issue if popups positioned in either the farthest corner from the cursor (computed) or a non-obstructive region such as the left sidebar.

*I always dismissed the popups so quickly that I never noticed the gear icon, until today googling eventually informed me of it. However a slide switch like Youtube autoplay or some other binary control would have been discovered....

Amen to that sentiment. I disabled them pretty quickly because they had a surprisingly accurate ability to obscure what I was trying to read.

Any way to move them away from the reader's focus would be appreciated.

The way they are set up now, they are much more of a hindrance than a help.

Also I don't really understand the level of angst about "down the rabbit hole". Isn't that part of why we are looking at stuff on the internet? To look at stuff?

If I am researching something for work I stay very focused. Otherwise, just browsing for fun, it is interesting to see the variety of connections that come up.