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Re:A deceptive curing practice in hunter–Gatherer societies by mikro2nd on Monday August 22, 2022 @05:25AM (#32549192)
Yes, I was wondering what the hell they did to my "back" button. Then I saw that I had "visited" the page something like 8 or 10 times just by clicking the article link here. How the hell does that work? And why?
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Re:A deceptive curing practice in hunter–Gatherer societies by nousermane on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:26AM (#32550374)
How -> history API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

It was designed to accommodate highly JS-driven sites/apps, where user rarely, if ever, clicks on regular <a href="">, but notion of "going back" is still a thing.

Of course, this API also opened floodgates to all sorts of scammers.

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