# Mouse cursor wandering all over screen

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 17, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-cursor-wandering-all-over-screen/1018483 "2025-05-17T23:07:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-cursor-wandering-all-over-screen/1018483/16 "2025-05-18T05:48:38Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> I can’t imagine anyone wanting that feature turned on, it is incredibly distracting and annoying.

A thread about mice, the jiggling thereof.

> [@Build a better mouse jiggler and the world will beat a path to your door](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-better-mouse-jiggler-and-the-world-will-beat-a-path-to-your-door/998519):
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> Been getting lots of ads for Amazon electronics on Facebook lately. Tonight one of the items was an “Undetectable Mechanical Mouse Jiggler”. Never having heard of one I clicked through and had to read quite a bit of the page before it hit me what it is for: it allows remote workers with monitoring software on their computers to look like they are working when they are not. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BX5C88B2](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BX5C88B2) Gotta say that this is a product category that never occurred to me before, but someb…

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