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You can easily spam the browser history using a redirect slide, effectively preventing users from leaving the page. No need for any JS, works even with active a
by fuzzy2 3y ago
You can easily spam the browser history using a redirect slide, effectively preventing users from leaving the page. No need for any JS, works even with active ad blockers. It’s relatively common on malicious sites.
- 0l 3y agoModern browsers will rarely store redirecting sites in the history stack AFAIK
- dcow 3y agoWhich browser does this? Would love to see the feature in action…
- mschuster91 3y agoEven on actually respectable newspapers. Spiegel Online for example has this in place...
- solarkraft 3y agoSpegel Online also does "pay or okay" (pay or accept tracking), so maybe at some point it's time to re-evaluate their respectability.
- mschuster91 3y agoMany media do this these days, it's become an industry standard. And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1]. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4re https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...
- fuzzy2 3y ago> good journalism lol I do agree though, on a more general level: it does take money to produce those articles, authors gotta get paid. However, IMHO, not at any cost.