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Any site that hijacks the back button to show you ads is similar to a creep locking you briefly in a room so you ‘consider’ their offer.

10729287 5y ago
I don't understand all those mentions of websites hijacking back buttons. I've been able to use it in both my main browser, Firefox with Ublock origin, and Vanilla MS Edge.
- kyrra 5y ago
  It tends to be a bigger issue on mobile, where very few people block ads.
  - theyeenzbeanz 5y ago
    It’s been horrendous on mobile lately. Sometimes it’ll still hijack my back button on desktop with ublock and privacy badger.
  - seanw444 5y ago
    I wonder why. Firefox Mobile has uBlock Origin too. Can't believe people can bear to open a browser without it. If it didn't have uBlock, I would save the web browsing mostly for the desktop.
    - dijonman2 5y ago
      I thought this only applies to Android? I think Firefox on iOS uses webkit and doesn’t support addons. There is firefox focus which does block ads but also only supports one tab at a time.
      - rwalle 5y ago
        You can do it on iOS: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-content-blockers-safari/ https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-content-blockers-saf...
      - brimble 5y ago
        Focus can act as an ad blocker for Safari too, IIRC. IIRC because I think that's what I did before I had a PiHole doing most of that, but I can't remember for sure.
  - DelilahHoare 5y ago
    Which is surprising because mobile is especially unusable without ad blocking.
  - unsupp0rted 5y ago
    I use an iPhone 6s for mobile. It blocks ads in Safari fine, but when I'm browsing Reddit via Narwhal, stuff opens in a webview and the webview doesn't have ad blocking. So the ads make the phone literally unusable for 5 ~ 30 seconds while they load up auto-playing videos, interstitial parallax image ads, etc
Findecanor 5y ago
As if three popups wasn't enough to make users not want to visit the site every again ...
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10729287 5y ago

I don't understand all those mentions of websites hijacking back buttons. I've been able to use it in both my main browser, Firefox with Ublock origin, and Vanilla MS Edge.

kyrra 5y ago
It tends to be a bigger issue on mobile, where very few people block ads.
- theyeenzbeanz 5y ago
  It’s been horrendous on mobile lately. Sometimes it’ll still hijack my back button on desktop with ublock and privacy badger.
- seanw444 5y ago
  I wonder why. Firefox Mobile has uBlock Origin too. Can't believe people can bear to open a browser without it. If it didn't have uBlock, I would save the web browsing mostly for the desktop.
  - dijonman2 5y ago
    I thought this only applies to Android? I think Firefox on iOS uses webkit and doesn’t support addons. There is firefox focus which does block ads but also only supports one tab at a time.
    - rwalle 5y ago
      You can do it on iOS: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-content-blockers-safari/ https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-content-blockers-saf...
    - brimble 5y ago
      Focus can act as an ad blocker for Safari too, IIRC. IIRC because I think that's what I did before I had a PiHole doing most of that, but I can't remember for sure.
- DelilahHoare 5y ago
  Which is surprising because mobile is especially unusable without ad blocking.
- unsupp0rted 5y ago
  I use an iPhone 6s for mobile. It blocks ads in Safari fine, but when I'm browsing Reddit via Narwhal, stuff opens in a webview and the webview doesn't have ad blocking. So the ads make the phone literally unusable for 5 ~ 30 seconds while they load up auto-playing videos, interstitial parallax image ads, etc

Findecanor 5y ago

As if three popups wasn't enough to make users not want to visit the site every again ...

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