Look at the name people give it. Scroll-hijacking. The web designer hijacked the scroll action and modified the behavior to something other than the os and&#x2F;or browser level setting. When I scroll, I expect to scroll based on the settings in my browser. I don&#x27;t want your website to stop scrolling and use my scroll action to play through the frames of your slow-loading animation. I just want to scroll down and keep reading.