[smhg]

I'm baffled any half decent site would use that. I expected some kind of new web/Chrome API.

That's a very "bold" choice of 538 if you ask me.

[usmannk]

It’s not that, they’re pushing the “before you go” page to the history stack. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/pus...

You can see it if you right click the back button after navigating to the article.