Accidentally dragging windows between Spaces

I am constantly finding myself accidentally dragging app windows between spaces. If you are in space 3 or 4 (or any space on the bottom row) and you are dragging a window to move it around, if you drag it along the top of the screen for too long, spaces thinks that you want to move it to the space above it, and pops you and the window to the new space. Is there a way to disable that option?

don't know how to disable it altogether but you can increase the delay before it happens. the default delay is 0.75 (seconds).
To set it to , say, 3 seconds, enter the following in terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 3
to get back to the original setting
use
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 0.75

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