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The original is particularly bad for me. Goes strait to a pay form and hijacks my back button. I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it and had to close the site and reopen HN. I wish these sites were banned here and I need to finally get an extension or something to ban myself from clicking them.

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Shit like this is probably only going to get worse once webassembly use becomes common

What will webassembly enable specifically?

Add the site to your deny list. Click link, see unavailable, smile.

I was with you until "smile"

Yeah it can be annoying depending on if the glass is half full or half empty YMMV. Myself I know such sites won't waste my bandwidth loading a script that won't really run if it doesn't get what it wants, I won't sit there for twenty or thirty seconds while some background thing pretends to do something, they (the site) won't get to scape the IP, not any stats that I was interested in whatever it was, nor get to reach for the cookie jar ... they don't win. There's usually more agreeable sites but not always. Despite that, it really puts a smile on my face.

Browsers ought to be able to do something about history hijacking. Maybe limits on history shenanigans across domains.

In Firefox, you just need to left-click and hold the back button to get a list that allows you to go back to any of several earlier pages. Pretty handy.

Occasionally even that hasn't saved me, but I suppose it's pretty close to the optimal UI. Maybe it just needs to partition the history entries by domain to defeat the sites that spam the hell out of your history.

This is the same in Brave (and I'd assume Chrome as well). You can also just right click on the back button.

Bigger issue isn’t the browser, your ISP can issue a deep cookie, you’ll have to VPN to get around that.

But a lot load balancers now fingerprint VPN addresses so that doesn’t work either

I think you're talking about a different problem. Here I'm not talking about tracking, just websites that hijack the back button.

You can right click your back button in your browser and a list will appear of recent history.

This is what I do when stupid, horny websites just refresh the current, stupid website rather than actually going back to where I was.

I don't know what's worse, the low information videos YT shovels on us or the low information articles with auto-play videos and horror bloat.

The "Bypass Paywalls" extension works for me. It's becoming necessary like Ublock Origin and a few others to make the web usable.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/

(also for Firefox, which is the one I'm using)

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

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