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Unrelated... but on the Washington Post I clicked through to the page that sells subscriptions, only to find that they hijack you back button and do not allow you to go back in your browser history.

What a joke. Makes me want to never visit their site again. That is unacceptable.



The bigger joke is a web page can hijack your browser.


This joke must be too highbrow because no one seems to get it.

https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020


"Web coffee protocol" -- I'll admit, this one surprised me.


LOL you got me :p


Wow. I didn't know even half that list. Excellent for usability and, unfortunately, more fingerprinting. I'm hoping all of these are covered by existing whitelisting/blacklisting.


The browser becomes the VM for all apps.


I've seen history manipulation used really well to emulate page navigation on an SPA... which is why it's always disappointing to see it abused.


That wasn't my experience (on Firefox, at least). It just opened in a new tab. The only history in that tab is the subscription page, so the back button doesn't work.


It's so massively user-hostile. Why would I buy a subscription at a site like that?




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