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by elldoubleyew 1571 days ago
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.

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"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

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.

They managed to make something more infuriating than the "before you go" exit intention modal.
Install NoScript and these hostile games stop being effective.