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Comment by spdegabrielle | Hacker News Reader

Annoying their home page tries to break the back button in my browser.

I've noticed more sites doing this, whether intentionally or not. Just the other day I was on Microsoft.com and I had to right-click the back button to find how many jumps 1 link-click took me through to get back to DDG. The answer was 4, there were 4 random redirects in between DuckDuckGo and the Microsoft page I visited.

Microsoft's web authentication system is...not great.

I get XSS attack warnings from NoScript because of how haphazardly they redirect login info between various domains: azure.com, outlook.com, windows.net, microsoft.com...it's almost comical.

Yeah what is this? Immediately turns me away from anything they offer

Seems like a poor implementation of localization - the root redirects to a language specific landing page.

I think the problem is caused by deskreen.com redirecting to https://deskreen.com/lang-en . It is a shame I can't update it.

Yeah, the site seems to be some sort of SPA that uses pushState() to change the url. However, the server was poorly configured so if you refresh, you get a 404 (presumably because the SPA is only served at the root).

literally every microsoft page does this, too. hold down the back button and you can see that you need to go back 2 hops. probably because you load the website and then it redirects to the local translation. annoying but not the end of the world.

And no vertical scroll bars (in vivaldi or fire3fox at least) Grr!

Ditto on Safari desktop.

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