Also www.reddit.com is/was doing the same back button hijacking. From google.com visiting a post, then clicking back and you would find yourself on Reddit general feed instead of back to Google.

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DaiPlusPlus 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm pretty sure what you're describing is this long-standing bug[1] I've experienced only when using Mobile Safari on Reddit - affecting both old.reddit.com and the (horrible) modern Reddit. It just doesn't happen in other browsers/engines except on iOS. It's especially annoying on an iPad when I tend to use back/forward instead of open-in-new-tab-then-close on iPhone.

[1] At least, I hope it's a bug.

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jncraton 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A bug that just coincidentally affects the only reddit visitors that are worth any money?

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just like finally getting rid of r/all on mobile just happens to bury a bunch of political stuff reddit executives and their friends don't agree with

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100721 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh? I exclusively view r/all and its loading fine for me across all devices.

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even manually typing reddit.com/r/all (or r/All, which was a workaround for a while) in the address bar on iOS Safari redirects you to reddit.com/. Since I'm guessing you're not browsing reddit.com, what client are you using?

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CDRdude an hour ago | parent [-]

This is available for me on iOS https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure what exact device you're using, but on iPhone 12 Mini, old.reddit.com is borderline unusable, very different experience compared to if you could access r/all like before via the actually usable web+mobile version, a comparison: https://imgur.com/a/AVGjjCN

Anyways, the end result has been I don't use reddit at all on the phone, so kind of ended up being good for me anyways.

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alienbaby 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's perfectly fine and usable for me. More so than the app or the 'new' Reddit design. I exclusively use the old design.

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hacker161 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

“Borderline unusable” is such a hyperbolic way to describe a fully functional design that doesn’t happen to be responsive. Hacker News must be borderline unusable for you as well then, no?

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embedding-shape 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Hacker News must be borderline unusable for you as well then, no?

On my phone? Yes, absolutely, impossible to hit the links correctly even if I zoom in. Both old reddit and HN is "Fully functional" on desktop, agree, but far cry from "fully functional" on my arguably tiny iPhone.

	▲	nemomarx 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Is that a ios browser difference? I browse hn all the time on my android phone and I didn't think my screen was unusually big. Maybe they implement some different scaling?

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notatoad an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecatin...

it's dead, per official comment from reddit.

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Ohmec 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You probably use old.reddit and a legacy app, right?

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Pay08 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you treat every iOS bug this way?

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radicality an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

For mobile Safari on iOS/iPad, the back button imo is just completely broken. It’s either a bug, or Apple might say I’m ‘holding it wrong’. One version it just stopped doing its one job correctly and it’s messing with my mental model of how I arrived at each tab. Currently:

Safari iOS: Be on a page, tap hold a link, click Open in new tab, go to new tab. The Back button should be grayed out and isn’t, and clicking it closes the tab. (???)

Chrome iOS: Be on a page, tap hold a link, click Open in new tab, go to new tab. Back button correctly grayed out as the tab has nowhere to go back to.

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Bombthecat 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

News sites are doing it too. Displaying a full display ad when you try to leave

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tim333 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder if Google will actually de rank them. Maybe a warning first for the big ones?

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jeffbee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would just like to point out that this was one of the things that the AMP straightjacket prevented. The whole online news industry has conclusively demonstrated that it can't be trusted with javascript and must be hospitalized, but they refuse to acknowledge their own illness.

	▲	kevin_thibedeau 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AMP sites listed on Android Assistant routinely messed with back button behavior to trap you.

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cli 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do not see this behaviour on the latest version of Firefox. I do use old.reddit, however.

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TeMPOraL 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Old Reddit doesn't do this, it's the "new" one that pretends to be an app, that does it and host of other stupid/user-hostile shit.

	▲	J_Shelby_J 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In any case, Reddit lets open links in a new tab in their settings, which resolved the issue for me.

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myrion 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't use old Reddit, and haven't noticed this behaviour either.

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moritzwarhier 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sounds like maybe some prevention against this is already implemented in either particular Android browsers, or ad blockers, maybe even for specific sites?

Just speculating, I can't imagine a reason why they'd implement this especially for Safari.

Other than A/B-testing or trash code that coincidentally doesn't work in all mobile browsers.

Maybe they use the same AI that generates their fictious relationship stories to add these dark patterns to their code base :D

	▲	fluidcruft 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My understanding is that Apple keeps Safari fairly broken and doesn't care to implement the Googleverse and leaves a lot of things E_WONTFIX. I have read speculation that broken Safari encourages apps in the App Store.

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ChocolateGod 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I usually find the back button just doesn't work on new Reddit at all.

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hobofan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

IIRC Reddit is also doing the same thing on their mobile (Android) app.