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Annoying their home page tries to break the back button in my browser.
by spdegabrielle 5y ago
Annoying their home page tries to break the back button in my browser.
- pferdone 5y agoYeah what is this? Immediately turns me away from anything they offer
- whoisthemachine 5y agoSeems like a poor implementation of localization - the root redirects to a language specific landing page.
- marcodiego 5y agoI think the problem is caused by deskreen.com redirecting to https://deskreen.com/lang-en https://deskreen.com/lang-en . It is a shame I can't update it.
- gruez 5y agoYeah, the site seems to be some sort of SPA that uses pushState() to change the url. However, the server was poorly configured so if you refresh, you get a 404 (presumably because the SPA is only served at the root).
- niccl 5y agoAnd no vertical scroll bars (in vivaldi or fire3fox at least) Grr!
- mthoms 5y agoDitto on Safari desktop.
- fuzzylightbulb 5y agoliterally every microsoft page does this, too. hold down the back button and you can see that you need to go back 2 hops. probably because you load the website and then it redirects to the local translation. annoying but not the end of the world.
- core-utility 5y agoI've noticed more sites doing this, whether intentionally or not. Just the other day I was on Microsoft.com and I had to right-click the back button to find how many jumps 1 link-click took me through to get back to DDG. The answer was 4, there were 4 random redirects in between DuckDuckGo and the Microsoft page I visited.
- msftauthaway 5y agoMicrosoft's web authentication system is...not great. I get XSS attack warnings from NoScript because of how haphazardly they redirect login info between various domains: azure.com, outlook.com, windows.net, microsoft.com...it's almost comical.