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Unrelated to the post, but related to TechCrunch: is there a way for me to prevent them from hijacking my back button? There’s nothing more frustrating than cli
by gouggoug 6y ago
Unrelated to the post, but related to TechCrunch: is there a way for me to prevent them from hijacking my back button? There’s nothing more frustrating than clicking back to go to my previous page, only to be redirected to the same exact page I already am on.
- throw03172019 6y agoThey need to stop pushing to the HTML5 history. They should replace instead.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoThey shouldn't touch it at all.
- dkdk8283 6y agoIt’s a huge pet peeve of mine, including manipulating the copy buffer.
- madeofpalk 6y agoYes, I've noticed this... I think it's something to do with their cookie consent?
- hhjj 6y agoI guess they don't want you to go back through guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers endpoint.
- zozbot234 6y agoClick and hold on the back button, you should get a list of previous pages.
- manigandham 6y agoThey ruined this site with the automatic “smooth” navigation to other stories and the homepage. I don’t know anyone who likes it.
- applecrazy 6y agoI don’t think it’s designed with us users in mind. It’s likely designed that way so they can boost story views (which allows them to sell more ads)
- yalogin 6y agoOver time techcrunch has become so bloated and that page so full of ads that I stopped going there altogether. On top of that they started hijacking the back button too, I stopped clicking on techcrunch links too. I would rather guess what they said from the comments here than clicking on that link.
- busymom0 6y agoI stop going to sites which break the back button. When TechCrunch made the design change, I stopped visiting them all together. That along with the bloated auto-scroll to next story killed the site for me.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoJavaScript whitelist
- aembleton 6y agoDisable JS on TechCrunch. Easiest way is with uMatrix, but you can also do this with uBlockOrigin.
- wayneftw 6y agoQuick JavaScript Switcher extension for Chrome. I've been browsing TechCrunch without JavaScript for years - it works fine.