Click a link and need to go back 10x to get back. Yes, I enjoy the footballs.

  • ‮redirtSdeR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I was just thinking about this.

    Super annoying because it can actually be fixed by using History.replaceState() over History.pushState().

    I guess the reason they do it is either to keep you stuck on their sucky site, or just incompetence.

        • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I feel like when you’re talking corporations, hanlons razor needs to be reversed. Never attribute to stupidity what could be adequately explained by malice. We’ll call it Nolnahs razor.

        • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Big Hanlon fan, but I don’t think stupidity is enough to explain why the site behaves that way.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I’m not a fan of Hanlon’s Razor, because I feel like people believe it to be some kind of steadfast law of the universe when in reality it’s just a “rule of thumb.” And honestly not even a great one imo.

            I feel like there are a whole lot of bad people that use the concept as cover to help them get away with the heinous shit they do. People who do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

        • orrk@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          idk, it seems like with this being a company that generates revenue from “clicks” doing something that essentially makes a person refresh the page 20 times seems like a good decision to make

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      What helps with this is clicking links with mousewheeldown, I automatically opens in a new tab. Also MWD on the tab label will close it, so you don’t have to aim for the ‘x’.

      A mouse with thum buttons is really handy as they do foreward and back, double clicking that gets you out of the issue caused in op

  • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not sure about that site specifically, but others that’s done it to me was easy to get around. Most of them are thwarted with basically double clicking the back button.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      As the screenshot illustrates, the redirects have been repeated many times to thwart that strategy.

  • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You’ve reminded me of a similar frustration that I’ve never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.

    • deejay4am@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Reddit has been doing this when I click a result from a Google search (yeah, sometimes you have to)

      It’s fucking annoying and I hope whatever JavaScript trick lets them do this gets blocked

      • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I use a Firefox based browser and this hasn’t happened to me, are you using Chromium or Safari? Could be a browser specific issue

        • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Firefox. I’m fairly convinced it’s something to do with UBO or one of the blocklists but I’ve never taken the time to dig into it properly.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Press and hold the back button. A lot of times this will show a history where you can select a page further back.

  • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Also: Algorithmic generated feeds where you try to click on one thing, but you click on the next thing in the list and when you click back, the feed looks completely different because it has new information on you. That thing you wanted to click on is gone and will never return.

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      That’s actually how I do my Lemmy feed. I have one chance to comment on a thread and if I don’t do it, when the page refreshes I lose it forever.

      I’ve learned to accept that there are just some things the universe never wanted me to comment on.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I’d love that, my entire frontpage is the same 30 things over and over unless I deliberately sort for something then it’s a DIFFERENT 30 things over and over

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Try some different sorting options. I’ve found “Active” and “Hot” to be kind of shitty (though to be fair, I haven’t really used them in like 6 months so maybe they’re better).

          I usually go for “Top 6 Hours” or “Top 12 Hours” for stuff that’s not too old and relatively active.

      • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        10 months ago

        …and now you’ve hit upon my other peeve: (mostly shopping) sites coded to disable browsing links in a new tab…

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Perhaps it’s because I never raw dog the web, and using uBlock Origins on “medium mode” somehow fixes it, but I don’t think I have ever experienced that.

          I have experienced sites that block right clicking, and that has always infuriated me. But I was able to get a little FF extension that disables right click blocking on websites. Which is pretty useful for downloading videos on sites that try to stop you from downloading their videos (though some have wisened up and can completely disable the ability to save a video through that method. The “save video as” option is completely greyed out). yt-dlp usually works in those cases, or one of the countless web-based video downloaders… but still annoying.

          • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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            10 months ago

            …ah, i may be conflating contextal menus with opening new tabs, since that’s the primary UI mode i use to do so: regardless, any kind of shenanigans which aim to disable application-level UI get under my skin…

      • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        What’s worse is that YouTube sometimes doesn’t do that, i.e. when you hit back it shows the same list from the cache or something. It gives you hope and makes it worse on those occasions when it does fully refresh on back.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Youtube recommended videos does this. Not a huge issue because I can always search for the video myself but it’s annoying.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Ugh yes.

        Though on desktop I’ve completely switched over to using FreeTube, and I’ve been loving it. The order of the videos in the feed does not change. It’s great.

  • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can right click (long press on mobile) to skip back to the page that took you there

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      That’s what OP has done; that’s what we’re seeing in this screenshot.

      The back button is highlighted. This list is the list of options OP gets when he right clicks the back button.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is one of the absolute greatest reasons to support opening most everything in a new tab (as long as you don’t end up like my mom who at one point had over 100 tabs on her phone). Doesn’t matter if it’s a link from the same website, from a search engine, or whatever else there is. New tab.

  • Eiri@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

    Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I always just assumed it was a form of “dark pattern” meant to try to stop people from leaving their website once they’ve entered (e.g., coming from a different site, you can’t just hit backspace or click back to immediately exit their site. You’re stuck now).

      • Eiri@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I think that’s right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it’s trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

        But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

          • Eiri@lemmy.caEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I’d have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there’s cheating involved, no?

            • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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              10 months ago

              Nope. They just hear back about number of views and how it influences the shoppers and brags about how it works.

              I honestly think it’s mostly the idea of advertising that keeps it running as an industry.

              Like Facebook juicing their video viewership and recent news about Google using off screen ads in their views and impressions numbers.