Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu

A ton of news websites do this now, navigating to a “Before you go…” page when you hit the back button. I’ve always suspected this kind of behavior has a lot to do with why people don’t read articles anymore. You know what you’re getting when you open a comment section on Reddit, Hacker News, or Twitter. The majority of other websites are going to be borderline impossible to view on mobile.

I usually figure that it is ads published in an ad network and placed on the site pages. The site usually doesn’t know anything about the specific ads and only has very general options to limit the kinds of ads that appear. The most that they could do is to drop the ad network if they get a lot of complaints.

It is like when people talk about the discovery of america. America wasn't discovered with Columbus. A civilization met other existing ones.

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

It's the same in ... well at least some of the continental states. Georgia for sure has mandated public access (mostly) and the beaches cannot be privately owned, specifically up to the high watermark. We used to use this to swim over and surf on Sea Island ... much to the chagrin of their rent-a-cops!

We have a variation on this in New Zealand. Below the high tide line is public land. Good luck getting there.

> If you owned a house that was up against a private beach, I doubt you'd let people park in your driveway or cut through your yard to access it.

There's a concept in common law called the public trust doctrine[1] that we inherited from our British legal lineage that many states incorporate into their handling of beaches.

For example, some states hold all beaches in public trusts, and everyone has the right to use them. There being no such thing as "private beaches", although riparian rights can be rented, also means that the public has a right to access those beaches even if private property blocks access.

In those cases, the public has both perpendicular and lateral beach access rights, the former meaning you can legally cut across private property to access beaches, the latter meaning that you can walk up and down beaches to access other beaches.

That's to say your feelings about people crossing private property don't really matter when it comes legal beach access, Hawaii holds all waters and beaches in public trusts via public trust doctrine that courts have held up for literally centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine