I’m shocked that’s still possible, shouldn’t we be able to fix that at the browser level?

orbital-decay 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We should, in the alternative timeline where apps never invaded web.

Just like how browsers disable or mute auto playing videos, they should be able to prevent back button hijacking until user has clicking a link or button.

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jchw a day ago | parent | next [-]

Some websites like PC Gamer have some shitty middleware (that seems to be very careful to hide its identity, only appear once per session, and not immediately register on page load, probably to try to delay browsers banning the ever loving fuck out of their practices) that uses pushState to hijack the back button to try to SPAM more articles at you, probably in hopes of grabbing your attention. I would be in favor of permanently banning domains that do this even once (intentionally and not just getting hacked) from ever executing JavaScript ever again and forcing them to switch domains and lose their SEO.

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vesrah a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Somehow some sites are able to get around the video autoplay, I especially notice it on news sites.

	▲	sunaookami 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They autoplay the video on mute which is not banned. I don't know why news websites do it, seems like wasting traffic and should cost more than the hypothetical income from video ads?