Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button.

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• badlotus@discuss.online ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Replicated on Safari on iOS.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This appears to be the page in question:

  tomshardware.com/…/linux-desktop-environment-face…

  It doesn’t appear to do so for me on either desktop or mobile, but it might be that I’m using Firefox or some add-on or configuration setting that I’ve set.

  tries Chromium, without add-ons

  Doesn’t seem to do it for me there either.

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  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might be a b testing

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tom’s Hardware used to be one of my primary destinations on the web, but it has really fallen off. I’ll bet I’ve been there at most twice in the last year.

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  • burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How the mighty have fallen. 20 years ago Tom’s and Anandtech were amazing.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tom’s didn’t do that for me, but pcgamer did. I’m assuming ab testing or a latent cookie.

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• petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I agree with another comment, it might be A/B testing. I get it sometimes (and sometimes not) when opening links from my RSS app to my Android Ironfox browser. I have ublock setup and adguard on my router.

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• despoticruin@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can confirm, they have been doing this for months

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• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I tried to recreate this in Firefox, but also couldn’t duplicate it.

  It’s possible they are trying it out, but I’m also concerned you might have a browser highjacker. Do the links go back to Tom’s Hardware, or do they lead somewhere else?

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you follow a link from another site?

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    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I did not, but if you want to link it offended page I can give it a whirl.

      I’ll link what I think is your page you were viewing and try it here.

      tomshardware.com/…/linux-desktop-environment-face…

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  … back button hijack is starting to rear its ugly head again.

  Are you basing this statement on this alleged case alone? I don’t get any of this behavior on this page on Vivaldi. Another person has done more of a deep dive and also came up short.

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Im basing it on months of irritation with their BS. Shows up consistently on Firefox with Ublock. Glad you’re not seeing it on your browser.

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    • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I'm on Firefox with Ublock Origin, the back button is working fine for me on Tom's Hardware. Can you provide a specific page on which the issue occurs for you?

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unable to reproduce on iOS Safari.

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• tiredofsametab@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Firefox mobile. Input the homepage URL into the address bar from this post. Went, scrolled the page a bit, and hit back. Came straight back here

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Worked on my Mac. Might be because I have the StopTheMadness extension. It specifically tries to prevent such bullshit.

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