Sometimes the monopolistic does something better for everyone. I’m this case, it’s selfish, of course, because they want people to clock the back button to get back into their advertising platform “ecosystem”, but it’s nice to catch a W from "Don’t be evil [when you’re building marketshare]” Google.
Comment on Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Long overdue, really.
Hijacking like this is one of many reasons I’m running noscript these days.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is the number one reason, why I have hundreds of open tabs - I welcome this improvement.
Now do the same for hijacking control-f to replace my browsers “find” functionality.
Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I hate you hey especially on github and reddit. I don’t want your half asssed shitty implementation of code search with difference hot keys to do what I expect it to do.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Bookmarks, people – use 'em!
deliriousdreams@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
The bookmark doesn't remind me to go back to it . The book mark system is a sink hole where links go to never be seen again.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
These days? I’ve been using it for years, alongside uBO. It’s astounding how many trackers and third-party sources pop up on many websites. I pissed off my last live-in girlfriend by having a pihole and blocking anything Facebook owns at the router level. She had to use mobile data for her addiction to Facebook and Instagram. But I’m not letting that tracking pixel into my home.
You get used to a page not loading, checking NoScript and whitelisting the site (temporarily). When that unleashes the additional 15-20 sites that also want access to MY computer, I look for another source. Like, I can accept they’re using a CDN, but past that, it’s stealing my bandwidth just for data harvesting, and I’ve gotten too old for that shit.