If you have JavaScript enabled, that is. JWZ at least does the redirect on the server side.

The following is pulled in from `https://soc.me/assets/js/turnBack.js`:

    const undesirables = [
      "news.ycombinator.com/",
      // "reddit.com/", // disable temporaily
      "lobste.rs/"
    ] ;

    if (undesirables.find(site => document.referrer.includes(site))) {
      window.location.replace(document.referrer);
    }

I wonder why Reddit is "temporarily not undesirable".

▲ mechazawa 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why are they undesirable though

▲ self_awareness 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Git history doesn't explain it unfortunately

https://github.com/soc/soc.me/blame/main/assets/js/turnBack....

Although, when we inspect author's profile on lobste.rs, we'll see that he's banned:

https://lobste.rs/~soc [Banned 4 years ago by pushcx: Troll.]

Maybe he's banned from HN as well. And this 'undesirables' is a method of taking some kind of revenge.

	▲	colejohnson66 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Last comment was just over 5 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=soc