Hell yeah. Too many news sites being you to their main page when you hit the back button.
RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.
Bro you just need to run sfc /scannow one more time. Just trust me bro
That didn’t work? Did you reinstall yet?
I’m a Microsoft MVP.
I don’t reboot my computer I just reformat and reinstall every time I start it.
How do you even get past the billion banners before the end of the day?
They could always go back to compliance with web standards and abandon their shitty Javascript bullshit.
Haha. Just kidding, they’d never do anything that sensible.
Why weren’t they going after this 10 years ago? I think I’ve just gotten into the habit of “open in new tab” because I know there’s a good chance “back” won’t do what I want.
Frankly, here on PieFed, “back” to a feed isn’t very useful, because you’ll just land somewhere in the feed, not back to the place where you started. “Open in new tab” solves that as well, for certain very small values of “solves.”
oh shit I thought that was just a brave/tablet problem on Lemmy. It’s definitely mildly infuriating to have been moved down half the feed when hitting back, thought the browser was recognizing I was halfway down a comment section or something so it was registering the movement when I went back or something. On PC I just do new tabs (habit) like you said so I never notice it.
I bet this happens because when you go back, there’s some new posts at the top, so e.g. “page 2” is now a bit shifted compared to where it was before.
– Frost
Honestly good move. While i never get redirected, most i get is website begging for click. “Are u leavin? Plz don’t leave, here’s mor articl you might be interested with” no thanks and fuck you.
While they’re at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?
I have successfully taught my children that if they play a game that requires ads between attempts at playing the game, that usually is faster to force close the game and start from the beginning again than wait for the ad to finish.
I’m so proud to see them just “nope” out of ads immediately.
Who the fuck added this “feature” anyways. Pages shouldn’t have any control over history in the first place.
Humans are weird and UX wants the web app to behave how humans expect it to behave. That’s how we got here. There’s a whole host of reasons why manipulating browser history is awful, but here we are.
Coming from the creator of a search engine that does “anchor hijacking” where it sends a request about what link you click even if you hover over the link and only see the original URL in the bottom.
Rare Google W.
Wait this is a generic web thing? Or limited to google chrome? I got confused
