[Eric_WVGG]

It was a popular “hack” back in the days before two-fingered click detection. Probably not as efficient as ctrl-click, but that felt even less Mac-like at the time.

A lot of these preferences seem to reflect the opinions of someone who would quite happily be stuck in 2005. Reverse scrolling… ugh.

[hollandheese]

Weird. I can't remember anyone doing that back in the day, as it was super easy to just ctrl-click. This seems like a "hack" for former Windows users ("switchers"), where ctrl-click has been around since Mac OS 8.