I am please I am not the only one.
What I have noticed is that a few websites allow their fixed headers to be closed.
Like Archive.org
Google maps with the collapsible side pane.
Cisco with the toggle button.
I made a complaint years ago to Apple about some silly white space on their boards and now have a close button.
A button that doesn't get in the way of the contents and it gives the user a choice like they would have absolute positioning whilst achieving the tablet touch only input issue from something read: "Why do we force tablet users to scroll to the top" on fixed headers.
Not at all.
There are no working negative feedback loops between users and sites. Voltage offsets. They can claim to care about users, but really all they give a damn about is looking fashionable and earning money.
More than a decade ago we had the popup apocalypse, a situation so poor that browser vendors actually started blocking those things. Then advertising became menace (malware, animation, slowing pages, privacy) so whole civilisation of ad blockers was born.
Yes I use to spend all night on customers things uninstalling dodgy browser toolbars and remove the registry keys manually because they wouldn't uninstall properly and all the hidden "services" that it put it there alongside other things. Not all of them were picked up by their malware detectors. Some were even rootkit based.
Now the toolbars are embedded on web pages.
I am left with that Bookmark killer by Alisdair McDiarmid and some fixed header killer extensions.
This is a good extension on Chrome to manage the fixed headers on Youtube but doesn't seem to always work like on some websites as they base the contents on a fixed pane which it kills and the functionality. Fixed header hider fixer:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sticky-header-hider-aka-f/eagncneohcoiofhknkofdobphnhgbladYou can set websites whether to leave/kill or restore fixed headers in the position that they appear.
It isn't perfect but it is good enough for Youtube.
For youtube I got rid of the shadows (the darkening of top and bottom) when I want to seek back and forwards which I do a lot, the spinning thing and what's up next.
I add these to Adblock which gives such a better experience with the Youtube player and no interference:
You also need to Untick allow intrusive advertising for it to work.
youtube.com##.ytp-gradient-bottom
youtube.com##.ytp-gradient-top
youtube.com##.ytp-tooltip-bg
youtube.com##.ytp-play-button ytp-button
youtube.com##.ytp-bezel
youtube.com##.ytp-spinner
youtube.com##.ytp-title-link yt-uix-sessionlink
youtube.com##div#theater-background.player-height
youtube.com##.ytp-chrome-top
youtube.com##.ytp-share-button-visible
youtube.com##.inner-text
youtube.com##.annotation.annotation-type-text
youtube.com##.annotation-shape.annotation-popup-shape.annotation-type-text
Here are others that rid off some of the annoyances if you get annoyed too by them:
Just rename the co.uk to match your domain.
google.co.uk###sbse0
google.co.uk###sbse1
google.co.uk###sbse2
google.co.uk###sbse3
google.co.uk###sbse4
google.co.uk###sbse5
google.co.uk###sbse6
google.co.uk###sbse7
google.co.uk###sbse8
google.co.uk###sbse9
google.co.uk###sbse10
google.co.uk###sbse11
google.co.uk###sbse12
amazon.co.uk###suggestions
amazon.co.uk###suggestions-template
amazon.co.uk###nav-flyout-iss-anchor
amazon.co.uk###miniATFUDP
amazon.co.uk##nav-flyout-anchor
amazon.co.uk###huc-v2-order-row-with-divider
amazon.co.uk##.a-row.huc-v2-pinned-order-row-with-divider
amazon.co.uk###huc-v2-order-row-placeholder
amazon.co.uk##.a-row.huc-v2-order-row
ebay.co.uk###nav-bar
ebay.co.uk###lkd_hdr
ebay.co.uk###gAC
amazon.co.uk##nav-flyout-iss-anchor
amazon.co.uk##nav-flyout-searchAjax
amazon.co.uk###miniATFUDP
dailymotion.com##.np_icon
dailymotion.com##.np_darken
dailymotion.com##.np_transition
Dailymail.co.uk##.floating-buttons
bbc.co.uk###bbccookies
The elements above I can do without as they are not essential in functionality like that Basket and purchase bar on Ebay and Amazon unless they remove them from the usual places.