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PSA: Please stop hijacking browser back behavior

31 points by modzu ↗ HN
nobody wants to be trapped in your web app purgatory

8 comments

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lilboiluvr69
Why in 2020 is this still a problem? I was just encountering this with a rogue ad on my phone since the new Firefox update rendered ublock origin unusable for the time being.
tell5436667
Ublock Origin is supported on latest mobile firefox. What are you saying?
dpedu
This isn't a bad thing.

It is a bad thing when done poorly. The AWS console is a pretty bad example of it.

valuearb
When would it be a good thing?
l0b0
It is absolutely a bad thing. I've been in the web dev space for 15+ years now, and I've never seen useful back button hijacking yet.
Gibbon1
I've wondered about the potential for subscription search engine that partly works by seriously punishing things like hijacking the back button. Hijack the back button your website is now a tier 5 result with a phat warning.
villgax
News sites & their Ad linked sites tend to do this to keep you stuck in their maze
nunez
Looking at you, Microsoft documentation