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https://archive.is/EoPXu https://archive.is/EoPXu

by jprd 4y ago

codazoda 4y ago
The original is particularly bad for me. Goes strait to a pay form and hijacks my back button. I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it and had to close the site and reopen HN. I wish these sites were banned here and I need to finally get an extension or something to ban myself from clicking them.
- anenefan 4y ago
  Add the site to your deny list. Click link, see unavailable, smile.
  - anamexis 4y ago
    I was with you until "smile"
    - anenefan 4y ago
      Yeah it can be annoying depending on if the glass is half full or half empty YMMV. Myself I know such sites won't waste my bandwidth loading a script that won't really run if it doesn't get what it wants, I won't sit there for twenty or thirty seconds while some background thing pretends to do something, they (the site) won't get to scape the IP, not any stats that I was interested in whatever it was, nor get to reach for the cookie jar ... they don't win. There's usually more agreeable sites but not always. Despite that, it really puts a smile on my face.
- nirvgorilla 4y ago
  You can right click your back button in your browser and a list will appear of recent history. This is what I do when stupid, horny websites just refresh the current, stupid website rather than actually going back to where I was.
- andrewflnr 4y ago
  Browsers ought to be able to do something about history hijacking. Maybe limits on history shenanigans across domains.
  - CamperBob2 4y ago
    In Firefox, you just need to left-click and hold the back button to get a list that allows you to go back to any of several earlier pages. Pretty handy.
    - andrewflnr 4y ago
      Occasionally even that hasn't saved me, but I suppose it's pretty close to the optimal UI. Maybe it just needs to partition the history entries by domain to defeat the sites that spam the hell out of your history.
    - somenameforme 4y ago
      This is the same in Brave (and I'd assume Chrome as well). You can also just right click on the back button.
  - anon223345 4y ago
    Bigger issue isn’t the browser, your ISP can issue a deep cookie, you’ll have to VPN to get around that. But a lot load balancers now fingerprint VPN addresses so that doesn’t work either
    - andrewflnr 4y ago
      I think you're talking about a different problem. Here I'm not talking about tracking, just websites that hijack the back button.
- mrslave 4y ago
  https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  Shit like this is probably only going to get worse once webassembly use becomes common
  - flangola7 4y ago
    What will webassembly enable specifically?
- aww_dang 4y ago
  I don't know what's worse, the low information videos YT shovels on us or the low information articles with auto-play videos and horror bloat.
- squarefoot 4y ago
  The "Bypass Paywalls" extension works for me. It's becoming necessary like Ublock Origin and a few others to make the web usable. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ (also for Firefox, which is the one I'm using)
mikeiz404 4y ago
There is a newer version of the article with more content here: https://archive.is/L21Xb https://archive.is/L21Xb (Tip: Keep clicking the next link / view the archive history to get to the latest snapshot)

https://archive.is/EoPXu https://archive.is/EoPXu

by jprd 4y ago

https://archive.is/EoPXu https://archive.is/EoPXu

The original is particularly bad for me. Goes strait to a pay form and hijacks my back button. I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it and had to close the site and reopen HN. I wish these sites were banned here and I need to finally get an extension or something to ban myself from clicking them.

anenefan 4y ago
Add the site to your deny list. Click link, see unavailable, smile.
- anamexis 4y ago
  I was with you until "smile"
  - anenefan 4y ago
    Yeah it can be annoying depending on if the glass is half full or half empty YMMV. Myself I know such sites won't waste my bandwidth loading a script that won't really run if it doesn't get what it wants, I won't sit there for twenty or thirty seconds while some background thing pretends to do something, they (the site) won't get to scape the IP, not any stats that I was interested in whatever it was, nor get to reach for the cookie jar ... they don't win. There's usually more agreeable sites but not always. Despite that, it really puts a smile on my face.
nirvgorilla 4y ago
You can right click your back button in your browser and a list will appear of recent history. This is what I do when stupid, horny websites just refresh the current, stupid website rather than actually going back to where I was.
andrewflnr 4y ago
Browsers ought to be able to do something about history hijacking. Maybe limits on history shenanigans across domains.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
  In Firefox, you just need to left-click and hold the back button to get a list that allows you to go back to any of several earlier pages. Pretty handy.
  - andrewflnr 4y ago
    Occasionally even that hasn't saved me, but I suppose it's pretty close to the optimal UI. Maybe it just needs to partition the history entries by domain to defeat the sites that spam the hell out of your history.
  - somenameforme 4y ago
    This is the same in Brave (and I'd assume Chrome as well). You can also just right click on the back button.
- anon223345 4y ago
  Bigger issue isn’t the browser, your ISP can issue a deep cookie, you’ll have to VPN to get around that. But a lot load balancers now fingerprint VPN addresses so that doesn’t work either
  - andrewflnr 4y ago
    I think you're talking about a different problem. Here I'm not talking about tracking, just websites that hijack the back button.
mrslave 4y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
pmoriarty 4y ago
Shit like this is probably only going to get worse once webassembly use becomes common
- flangola7 4y ago
  What will webassembly enable specifically?
aww_dang 4y ago
I don't know what's worse, the low information videos YT shovels on us or the low information articles with auto-play videos and horror bloat.
squarefoot 4y ago
The "Bypass Paywalls" extension works for me. It's becoming necessary like Ublock Origin and a few others to make the web usable. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ (also for Firefox, which is the one I'm using)

mikeiz404 4y ago

There is a newer version of the article with more content here: https://archive.is/L21Xb https://archive.is/L21Xb (Tip: Keep clicking the next link / view the archive history to get to the latest snapshot)