[phillipseamore]

  (a class="quickBrowserEscape ..." target="_blank" href="https://www.google.ca/") Need to leave site for your safety? Quick Escape
  $('.quickBrowserEscape').on('click', function () {
      document.body.style.opacity = 0;
      document.title = 'New Tab';
      window.open('https://www.weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html', '_blank');
      window.location.replace($('.quickBrowserEscape').attr('href')); // removes current page session DOES NOT WORK IN IE
      return false;
  });

Would recommend picking random URLs from an array.

[embedding-shape]

Best would be if they took care to match the overall brightness of the page they redirect to.

Currently they're going from a "not 100% bright website" to "very much 100% bright website" and the flash in people's faces will be relatively obvious, if the other person been trying to hide websites themselves. I've heard.

[shakna]

This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.

[otherme123]

A quick check shows that they don't store anything as cookies or any other browser storage.

The thing that still works is the back button after the redirection to Google, and you can still un-close the tab with Ctr-Shf-T which pops the Google page with back history intact. They have "cache-control: max-age=0" which probably should be changed to "cache-control: no-store". Still, the back button has the history if the user clicked links. Improvements could be:

- Recommend the usage of incognito mode.

- Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement, as the replacement alone can have a delay and the abuser could see a glimpse of the police page. Blanking is immediate.

[jorams]

> Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement

That's what the "document.body.style.opacity = 0;" is for. Though I agree emptying out the body is probably better.

[make3]

I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major

[shakna]

Have fun exploring the list of things we've caught abusers actually using. [0] Or don't. Reading and keeping your soul intact aren't compatible.

I am 100% sure that some do, thanks to firsthand life. And any doing it, is enough to get people dead, even if 99% don't. And yes, CS majors can be abusers, too.

[0] https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/domestic-family-violen...

[latexr]

They do that and much worse.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/34...

It’s so prevalent it even has a name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalkerware

Don’t underestimate an abuser’s ability to find a way.

[thomascountz]

There are tools which exist to make things such as this accessible to non-CS major perpetrators.

[AndrewThrowaway]

I wonder if Hans Reiser would have checked...