[elldoubleyew]

Unrelated to the article but why do modern browsers still allow the native back button functionality to be prevented like this?

When I tried to go back from this page it presented me with "articles to check before you go" which is infuriating.

[dang]

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dylan604]

SPAs. They allowed history manipulation to allow state updating via URL without triggering a page reload.

Design a thing for a purpose, people will use that thing for a different purpose. Those new purposes are not always benign.

[slig]

They managed to make something more infuriating than the "before you go" exit intention modal.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Install NoScript and these hostile games stop being effective.