The wheel/mousewheel event listeners that are registered on document level targets (window.document, window.document.body, or window) will be treated as passive if not specified as otherwise and calling preventDefault() inside such listeners will be ignored. This is the wheel version of the scrolling intervention which is shipped in Chrome 56: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/01/scrolling-intervention
Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLxnzyixmR9MeHXE75Uz2nIVA0PaEjN4W3V_-df0sYI/edit?usp=sharing https://github.com/sahel-sh/Document-level-passive-wheel-event-listeners/blob/master/Explainer.md