Comment on Redirect to prevent back button

officermike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I usually right click the back button and go 2 entries back. Done.

  Microsoft also does this a lot on some of their sites.

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Usually with this, it’s like 20 entries, so pushes everything else off.

    The ones where it’s only a couple entries mostly seem to be the ones where there’s multiple articles on a single page and it’s at least might be attempting to be helpful?

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I usually just block the site.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Youtube does it, and it just continues to blast the wrong video you accidentally just auto-started because instead if fucking off, it shows other videos with the bad video getting just reduced.

  Aaargh for the state of todays internet

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  • CyanFen@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use YouTube on desktop daily and I’ve never had this happen to me.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does it on mobile

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  • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had this happen only when I go back too quickly, before the page can completely load in

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• where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate that this is even a feature in the web standard. A result of some massive corporate corruption for sure.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I recently looked into this after it seemed like Facebook messed with my back button on a private mobile window:

    Someone pointed out that it’s nice to have, for example, your email provider know that you probably want to go back for a message to your inbox instead of going back to the previous page.

    But what if browsers monitored which sites abused the feature and showed a pop-up when you click the back button, just like they offer to show you notifications? They could show you:

    This site has been reported to hijack the back button. Would you like to go back to the last domain that you visited?

    and offer to remember the setting.

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