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zozbot234 9 hours ago

The fix is to hold down the back button so the local history shows up, and pick the right page to go back to. Unfortunately, some versions of Chrome and/or Android seem to break this but that's a completely self-inflicted problem.

Rygian 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's not a fix. It's a workaround.

zozbot234 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a fix because it completely solves the issue on any site, without requiring changes from LinkedIn or any other actor.

vitro 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My car leaks oil. So I refill it here and there. This fixes issue with any car maker and does not require action of any other actor.

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

Yes, it’s a workaround because it doesn’t require anyone to fix the issue.

Spare_account 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>it completely solves the issue on any site

It doesn't solve the problem with Instagram links, which in my experience do the following:

1) Open a new browser tab, with no history. 2) Close the original tab, so I can't easily get back to where I was.

zozbot234 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a different kind of dysfunction, though. You can address it by copying the link and pasting it in a new tab, or if that's not possible, copying the current page to a new tab and clicking on the link there.

jdwithit an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've noticed that on Instagram, too. Absolutely infuriating.

marak830 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a work around to them making changes to deliberately change the expected results of pressing "back"

TeMPOraL 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's also not a very effective workaround, because some of the websites in question end up spamming multiple instances of their home page in the history stack.

zozbot234 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You can usually address this by going back as far as possible, then holding the button again so more of the history shows up. And IME, it's only really broken sites that have this problem in the first place.

TeMPOraL 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but that's super annoying and at that point graduates to being a shitty workaround.

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

The fix is to not to implement anti-user patterns. What you're describing is a loophole around it.

zozbot234 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> The fix is to not to implement anti-user patterns.

That's not a fix the user can implement themselves. Holding down the back button is comparatively trivial.

lxgr 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why on Earth would the user be expected to implement a fix for a problem they didn't cause themselves in the first place?

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