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Speaking of fuck you patterns, has anyone else been part of the A/B test where navigating to an Instagram page prevents you from using the back button? They som
by gabes 5y ago
Speaking of fuck you patterns, has anyone else been part of the A/B test where navigating to an Instagram page prevents you from using the back button? They somehow clean my tab history so that I can’t go back to Google. It’s been happening to me for months!
- fleddr 5y agoI'm glad you mention this, thought I was the only one. I've been experiencing this on facebook.com, for years. I'm puzzled how this is even technically possible. A website isn't supposed to be able to clear the history of where I came from?
- greenshackle2 5y agoIt's Firefox doing it to prevent Facebook (and Instagram) from scraping your history. If you're not on Firefox, then I don't know.
- fleddr 5y agoThat makes total sense, thanks!
- commoner 5y agoIs there an announcement, help page, or issue/commit explaining this feature?
- greenshackle2 5y agoThere's this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/facebookcontainer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/facebookcontainer/ I'm not sure if it's built into some versions now? It does it on my Windows computer but not my Linux laptop, and I don't remember explicitly installing this extension on either.
- gabes 5y agoAh of course. Shows how I hold my bias toward Facebook :facepalm: