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hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s pretty much the standard.

On iPhones and iPads, swipe from the left to go back. In a book on such a device, swipe from the right to go forward.
On eReaders, particularly Kindles, tap on the right side to go forward; tap on the left side to go back.
On Android with gestures enabled, swipe from the left side to go back. Or… swipe from the right side to go back. Counter intuitive but apparently at least one person uses that.

Assuming OP has standard gestures enabled, they could still swipe from the left side.

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three@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Right-handed android user. I shan’t be reaching across my screen with my right thumb to use my gestures “correctly”.

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- __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It is almost like this is why we had originally decided to put navigation buttons at the very bottom of the screen where they are easily accessible both by left- and right-handed users.
  
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  - baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And then larger and larger “handheld” devices made that physically awkward as people tend to hold their phone near the middle to balance the weight and oh look my thumb doesn’t reach the top or bottom anymore!
    
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    Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Is this a tiny hands problem I’m too normal to have?
    
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  - papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Gestures are also easily accessible by both left and right handed users, when one side hasn’t been replaced with a different function.
    
    Android user that uses either hand (depending on how hard I’m yoinking of course)
    
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- hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I didn’t say it wasn’t convenient. I said it was counter intuitive.
  
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I shouldn’t have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it more difficult to leave their website. I kid you not I almost didn’t see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.

There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates “previous” or “next” by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn’t want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.

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