Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

> I don't do some half-assed horizontal "progress bar" as you scroll down the page. Your browser probably /already/ has one of those if it's graphical. It's called the scroll bar. (See also: no animations.)

Sadly, I would argue that this is inaccurate. Especially on mobile browsers, the prevalence of visible scroll bars seems to have dropped off a cliff. I'll happily excuse the progress bar, especially because this one can be done without JavaScript.

JS progress bars also generally show you your progress through the main-content div or whatever, so even if they have a particularly egregious footer (I've seen footers that are over 1000px tall, with embedded youtube videos), the progress through the actual content is still somewhat faithfully reported.

Better would be to ditch the absurd footer, but still.

Android Chrome at least has a scrollbar visible as you scroll