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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 12:57:39 JST feld
   How do these websites work where they somehow take over your browser navigation history so the back button doesn't work besides its filled with duplicates of the current page?
   
   And why isn't this automatically detected and denied by browsers?
   
   Is there a browser extension that fixes this?
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 12:59:11 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @feld window.location.back() in js
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 12:59:57 JST feld

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     • Pissed Hippo
     @sun it does this bullshit
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:25:22 JST feld

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     • Yuchen Pei
     @quasi At that point I point as well not use the internet at all
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     Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:25:28 JST Yuchen Pei

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     @feld
     Have you tried disabling javascript
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:49:11 JST feld

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     • I am Water
     @SlicerDicer If the site is intentionally injecting fake events with the same URL into your navigation history they should just be squashed down to one record
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     I am Water (slicerdicer@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:49:12 JST I am Water

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     @feld >> And why isn't this automatically detected and denied by browsers?
     
     Wouldn’t this break the internet?
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:54:23 JST feld

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     • I am Water
     @SlicerDicer Same page URL not same domain. There's no way a user can do that. Except what, hit page refresh? Those don't get counted anyway. Same idea.
     
     So I propose: If last page matches current page exactly, don't store another record
     
     Can they cheat by faking unique page navigations with "?params=whatever" or "#anchors" in the URL ? Sure. So let's group those together in a way you can skip back to the next previous domain entirely
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     I am Water (slicerdicer@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:54:24 JST I am Water

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     @feld How do you determine what’s fake and what’s real. The enshittification process guarantees abuse happens.
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     OpenComputeDesign (opencomputedesign@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:47:25 JST OpenComputeDesign

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     @feld This should honestly be considered a federal crime.

     feld likes this.