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Unrelated to the article but why do modern browsers still allow the native back button functionality to be prevented like this? When I tried to go back from th
by elldoubleyew 5y ago
Unrelated to the article but why do modern browsers still allow the native back button functionality to be prevented like this?
When I tried to go back from this page it presented me with "articles to check before you go" which is infuriating.
- slig 5y agoThey managed to make something more infuriating than the "before you go" exit intention modal.
- dang 5y ago"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dylan604 5y agoSPAs. They allowed history manipulation to allow state updating via URL without triggering a page reload. Design a thing for a purpose, people will use that thing for a different purpose. Those new purposes are not always benign.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoInstall NoScript and these hostile games stop being effective.