We recommend getting a mouse jiggler with an on / off button, as some cheaper models require you to unplug them whenever you want to turn them off. However, they are all likely to work as advertised. We haven’t tested any of the dozen or so USB mouse jigglers that are currently available on Amazon. However, it’s always possible that the jiggler will provide some kind of digital trail that a skilled IT professional or one with monitoring software could detect. So if you are on a corporate laptop, your IT department probably will not even notice you have it (unless they walk by your desk and see it). These USB mouse jigglers will likely appear in the Windows device manager as an HID-compliant mouse (or something similar in macOS and Linux), and you won’t need to install any drivers. Then, usually, with the touch of an on / off button on the dongle itself, the jiggler will move the pointer around until you disable it. These are USB dongles that plug into a USB port on a laptop and appear to the operating system as if they were mice. If you peruse the virtual shelves at Amazon or another retailer, you’ll see scores of mouse jiggler dongles going for $8 to $12.
