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Side note: Google'e status page, linked, breaks the back button. How the 'F can a simple status dashboard break something so simple? (In Google's own browser,
by erichurkman 6y ago
Side note: Google'e status page, linked, breaks the back button. How the 'F can a simple status dashboard break something so simple?
(In Google's own browser, too.)
- keerthiko 6y agoironically, if this is true for all chrome users, the back button works just fine on firefox + windows.
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoBack button disrupted for Safari on iOS.
- glxxyz 6y agoWorks in Chrome & Firefox for me on macOS Catalina but not in Safari.
- crazygringo 6y agoThe culprit is that linking to: https://www.google.com/appsstatus Then loads: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status If you hit back, it goes to the URL without hash, but then instantly goes to the one with the hash. Pretty annoying. (If you paste the 2nd URL directly, you will not have problems.)
- cgb223 6y agoIronically, this increases their own page’s pagerank
- gowld 6y agoHow?
- cgb223 6y agoPage views are one of the variables of the page rank algorithm If you keep going to the site over and over, then potentially it counts as new views (albeit not unique ones) That said Google probably exempts their own sites from page ranks since they you know, own the search engine
- dntrkv 6y agoGoogle does not have insight into page views. They can only know if you clicked through to the site, not how many times you loaded that page.
- jakeogh 6y agoand for sure they ignore that analytics GET
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoLol
- social_quotient 6y agoYeah I would have assumed they have signaling from use of GA, GTM, Fonts ?
- ultrarunner 6y agoSo they're using history.push() rather than history.replace(). I love the history API when it's used approprately, but it is a double-edged sword that has to be used carefully. News sites injecting their homepage in history on an article sometimes make me wonder if it's worth it.
- julianlam 6y agoOf course it's worth it! You gained valuable insight on which sites utilise a particular dark pattern, and that they probably use others. I don't bother clicking on TechCrunch articles for this reason.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoIt's a status page, doesn't seem to be a dark pattern intended to keep you engaged and garner clicks, more likely just badly written. If anything they'd probably want you not visiting it more.
- schrodinger 6y agoIncompetence, not malice. Who would dark pattern their status page to keep you on it longer—def an accident.
- BoorishBears 6y agoWhy are there two comments back to back missing the fact they're obviously referring to this part of the comment: > News sites injecting their homepage in history on an article sometimes make me wonder if it's worth it. They even bring up a news site as an example.
- dogecoinbase 6y agoI'm not going to assert actual malice, but I think that at Google's scale we can go further than incompetence to bare negligence.
- tdy721 6y agoHow about canary?
- slondr 6y agoThis is definitely a Chrome problem; Firefox works just fine.
- lights0123 6y agoWebKit and its forks: Safari, Chrome, and GNOME Web are affected, Firefox is not.
- ec109685 6y agoTrying to be way too fancy.
- zaroth 6y agoI am sure this is not the most important thing we can find to discuss relating to the featured article.
- C19is20 6y agoWhy not?
- grensley 6y agoIt's things like this that keep me sane though: knowing that even huge companies go offline or break the back button.
- cataflam 6y agoI'm sure you know, you can right click or long press the back button (on desktop at least) to access the whole history for that. Still annoying. https://i.imgur.com/CTxvExS.png https://i.imgur.com/CTxvExS.png
- dang 6y ago"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html