The back button hijacking is easy. You can "push" something into the "navigation stack" and then detect the "state change" of the back button. There's a few pre

The back button hijacking is easy. You can "push" something into the "navigation stack" and then detect the "state change" of the back button. There's a few pretty simple ways to do this without magic. The website you're thinking of that does it is slashdot, sorry for the bad news. It's long been merely a shadow of the past. Amp initially didn't allow JavaScript. It had a bunch of restrictions. I honestly think it was good people doing it for a good cause but then the corporate meat grinding machine had to process it and they turned it into a power play and data mining operation. Once again, the solution is inescapable both for /. and the goog; take big money out of tech. Every significant computer revolution basically started on that premise. Time to roll it again. Consolidated power breeds incompetency. Our most noble task in life is to make the necessary possible and then inevitable