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It's not a new pattern though. Before they've done it for telemetry and identifying which initiative this click is from. Nowadays it's just that they're redire
by 411111111111111 6y ago
It's not a new pattern though.
Before they've done it for telemetry and identifying which initiative this click is from. Nowadays it's just that they're redirecting the default route to a particular site after, so they could potentially switch the site they redirect to later.
While a small annoyance to mobile users which go there from sites like hn, it does give the owner of the site a tiny amount of control where ppl end up on their site.
At least that's my interpretation...
- thoraway1010 6y agoStill so annoying. I wish browsers at least might do something like skip quick redirects in history?
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoBrowsers could pin recent other sites to the bottom of the visible history, so you can still leaf back within a website but moving back to the previous site is also very easy.
- Moru 6y agoOn desktop you can usually long-press the back button to get a list of the recent history and jump back two steps to avoid getting stuck.