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by wtbob 3559 days ago
Honestly, they shouldn't re-prompt IMHO — they should only do that on a reload — rather, they should just display the page as it was, which is what I expect when I hit back.
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I agree. This would greatly frustrate users on quick-feed news sites and social media who are hoping to find that article or post they were just reading to find it now gone because the sites algorithm marked it as 'read'.
I have this problem all the time on YouTube. I'll instinctively click through to subscriptions but when that is loading I'll notice a recommended video that looks interesting. But then hitting back it's gone because YouTube has reshuffled the recommendations
It would be interesting to see the analytics for this. I've seen the dialog many times, but can't think of a time I resubmitted the form.
I resubmit the form approximately always, FWIW.