The scroll event handler is often used to implement custom smooth[sic] scrolling behaviour on web pages. This ends up being super janky nearly every time though and makes reading these web pages quite annoying. Unfortunately, we can't just write off these misbehaving websites entirely since sometimes they have useful content on them.
This Chrome extension blocks web pages from attaching to certain scroll-related events, meaning that you never again have to be annoyed by a web page's broken custom scrolling.
It works by hijacking the EventTarget.prototype.addEventListener function (yes, the irony of hijacking native behaviour to prevent the hijacking of native behaviour is not lost on me) and preventing any event listeners from being attached to the following event types:
scrollscrollstopmousewheelwheel
It also blocks these events through the old-style onevent interface on window and document.
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Clone this repo
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Go to chrome://extensions/
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Click Load unpacked extension
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Navigate to wherever you cloned this repo on disk