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Is it good practice to allow users to navigate simply by hovering on a menu item without clicking?

Is it good practice to allow users to navigate simply by hovering on a menu item without clicking?

A pattern I have noticed recently on some (desktop) websites is that users can navigate simply by hovering on menu items.
While this is more efficient (fewer clicks) it feels unexpected and therefore unintuitive to me. I am wondering if it…

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