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Why do all Meta websites intentionally break the back button? It makes me irrationally angry every time I visit facebook or instagram for how disrespectful it i
by brink 3y ago
Why do all Meta websites intentionally break the back button? It makes me irrationally angry every time I visit facebook or instagram for how disrespectful it is, it's like it springs a trap where I'm not allowed to leave in the browser tab I arrived in.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoI find any site that does this to be user hostile and minimize my time spent there.
- layer8 3y ago> It makes me irrationally angry That’s pretty much the purpose of Facebook? ;)
- BeetleB 3y agoAt least on Firefox, the back button continues to work on this site.
- bombcar 3y agoDoes Microsoft's discussion forums work too? Because I wonder if Firefox has code to ignore backbitten pages.
- _ink_ 3y agoA random feature I didn't know for too long is long pressing the back button, which opens a menu containig the last few locations. Typically that helps with sits who hijack the back button. Works also on desktop.
- lxgr 3y agoWhat I'd love is a crowdsourced database for known back button hijackers in e.g. Firefox: If too many people report a site as being broken that way, the back button API could be made opt-in for everybody in the site settings.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- pvg 3y agoPlease don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. 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