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>Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse.

in my case every single time was by accident whilst moving the mouse around, off of other text I was trying to read.

frankly, its bloody annoying

it covered the text i was reading

the search for yet another "disable" setting begins....



> the search for yet another "disable" setting begins....

Your inability to figure out how to disable it was already counted as success!

> the rates of disabling the feature are negligibly low — a strong indicator that people find it useful.

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w...


> To ensure that these rates were not artificially low due to usability issues, we also confirmed in a separate qualitative test that users were indeed able to find and operate the disable functionality if they desired to disable Page previews. (From their AB article)


The popup has a little gear icon in the bottom right. You can disable it from there.


cheers!


They put a small click button on the edge of a hover control? really?


I just tested it and it's trivial to click. Are you actually having difficulty or just pretending it's hard so you can be condescending?

I think the best place for these controls are usually on the feature itself. I don't want to have to search in some independent preferences UI every I want to see if something can be tweaked, but it makes sense to offer it there as well.


“We thought the floating pop-up billboard showing you a preview of what’s inside when you glance at a building was a great feature as you walk down times square”

— bad UX designers in 2070




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