Disable parts of the 2017 Macbook's trackpad?

Solution 1:

This question is partly answered in this post: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/322252.

There is a software you can install which allows you to reduce the tracking area: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

There is another answer on the same link which explains how you can use a tape as a hack to ignore part of the trackpad: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/262149