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this killed my browser history, wtf?

• chungy 5y ago
  Basically why I always use the middle mouse button to open links ;)
  • lproven 5y ago
    Exactly so, yes!
• pjc50 5y ago
  Like many of the more "helpful" browser APIs, the ability to alter history is easily abused. It should never have been allowed to edit cross site history.
• comprambler 5y ago
  I had to go back 9 “pages” to get back to hn. I guess LJ is just trash now.
  • mattowen_uk 5y ago
    None of that happened to me. HN was one click on the back button. That said, agreed - LJ is trash.
    • dan_linder 5y ago
      When I first saw the complaint about LJ, I first thought was "LinuxJournal" And I had to do a double take on the URL. This URL is "LiveJournal", for anyone coming across this thread later. Hijacking the back button is never a good idea...
      • zerocount 5y ago
        I didn't know Livejournal was still around.
        • lproven 5y ago
          [Blog post author here] It never went away. I've had my main blog there since 2002 and tech one since 2006. It works, it's free. I don't have a paid account and never have, and I do not see the problems people mention because I have a working ad-blocker. I am sorry for those who don't.
        • mananaysiempre 5y ago
          Among other things, it used to be fairly widely employed by Russian-speaking users until the government crackdown and mass comment spam in the mid-2010s. Essentially, the older generation skipped Wordpress, Blogger, MySpace, Google+, and many others and went from LiveJournal straight to Facebook and later to Telegram (the younger generation went from VK to Telegram).
  • kreeben 5y ago
    Pretty much same here. With just one click I found myself being seven clicks away from HN. Using WaterFox.
  • winrid 5y ago
    FWIW works fine on Chrome @ Android