Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button.

tal@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Might be a b testing

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• pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Might be that there’s some way of blocking that behavior if you don’t like it, though, if I’m not seeing it.

  Not without either breaking most SPAs (Single-Page Applications) or writing userscripts with site-specific logic.

  The classic way of doing this crap was to make a placeholder page navigate to the article page. That leaves the redirect page in the history stack so when the user presses the back button, it just opens the page that navigates them forward again.

  The modern way is to use the history API with history.pushState to add a history entry while listening for the popState event to check if the user pressed the back button. Unfortunately, both of those features have a legitimate use case for enabling navigation within a SPA.

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly though, as both a developer and a user SPAs could get fucked for all I care. I don’t think it’s a requirement of SPAs, but they seem to do so much unnecessary bullshit. So many bad development practices. I don’t hate the concept of SPAs, but it’s clearly just asking too much of the average contract developer.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As a developer as well, I agree that they can get fucked. Bloated crap that wastes bandwidth and ruins first-time-to-paint on mobile devices by necessitating downloading and initializing a multi-megabyte bundle of npm packages.

      As a user of the internet, I need websites to work, however. I would have disabled JavaScript entirely by now if it weren’t for the fact that doing so renders what feels like half of the entire web unusable.

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• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It happens after following a link from another sit, usually Lemmy.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest problem with the Doctrow shit where you “coin a term” is it inevitably leads to confusion when it becomes widespread.

  OP doesn’t understand any of this, they just heard “enahitification” and that people up ote it. So when they get confused, they call it that and share it for the likes.

  New people see the misuse, and have no idea what the word is even supposed to mean.

  What OP is complaining about doesn’t make sense and is nonreproducible, but their brain jumps to “enshitification” first because brains are lazy

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s has now been replicated. It seems it is you who “doesn’t understand any of this”.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Add another to your list. It also started happening to me recently.

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I see your part of the Post Prevention Brigade. Carry on.

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