Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch

Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by kazinator on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:03PM (#36252217)

I seem to recall that hijacking the back button goes back to the 1990's. I suspect some of the ways in which it was done (like with naive redirects) probably don't work today, but the annoying effect has been there for eons.

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Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by reaperman on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:59PM (#36252553)

I remember browsers stopped it for awhile. Maybe I’m misremembering?

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Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by kazinator on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:54PM (#36252916)

I don't think you are. I think early versions of the problem happened because the website did a redirect: x.y.com/ would sand you to w.y.com/ and your browser would stupidly remember that as a user navigation. Your back button from w.y.com would take you to x.y.com, which would perpetrate the redirect. The fix for that is not to enter redirects into the back history, only user-initiated navigations.

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Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by sublinear on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:07AM (#36253473)

This is still around

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

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