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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:09AM (#47762739)
> full screen modals

Thanks. I never imagined this is a thing, it's an useful addition to my mental model of software components, to explain why back button on web behaves in weird ways for some apps.

But it sure does sound like a dumb pattern on the web.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by notpushkin on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:58AM (#47763045)
While we’re making sure that modals are recorded in history so that you can close them with the back button on mobile (e.g. https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/shallow-routing), MSFT can’t be bothered. But when it comes to abusing the very same history API to grab the user’s attention for a bit longer...
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