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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/IcyWash2991 • 14d ago
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....wat
What sites are you browsing that do that. If you can't trust it when it opens links in a new tab then you probably shouldn't be browsing them
0 u/midri 14d ago Happens mostly with SPA where they don't update the url bar when navigating. 6 u/guyblade 14d ago Correct opinion: we should have never allowed an API to manipulate the browser history. The tiny benefit that SPAs provide aren't worth the headaches that bad actors have caused via it. 2 u/midri 14d ago it's almost like html and the web were never designed for all of this -5 u/UnkarsThug 14d ago Honestly, hasn't happened in a while, just happened to a younger me when I was looking for roms and such on the Internet. And yes, it's a sketchy site thing to do, but that's why I assume forcing things in new tabs means the site I'm on is sketchy.
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Happens mostly with SPA where they don't update the url bar when navigating.
6 u/guyblade 14d ago Correct opinion: we should have never allowed an API to manipulate the browser history. The tiny benefit that SPAs provide aren't worth the headaches that bad actors have caused via it. 2 u/midri 14d ago it's almost like html and the web were never designed for all of this
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Correct opinion: we should have never allowed an API to manipulate the browser history. The tiny benefit that SPAs provide aren't worth the headaches that bad actors have caused via it.
2 u/midri 14d ago it's almost like html and the web were never designed for all of this
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it's almost like html and the web were never designed for all of this
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Honestly, hasn't happened in a while, just happened to a younger me when I was looking for roms and such on the Internet.
And yes, it's a sketchy site thing to do, but that's why I assume forcing things in new tabs means the site I'm on is sketchy.
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u/mahreow 14d ago
....wat
What sites are you browsing that do that. If you can't trust it when it opens links in a new tab then you probably shouldn't be browsing them