I was just blowing off steam about a practice I hate which is more and more common in (mostly commercial) web sites: when they’ve got you where they want you, they disallow going back. I don’t know how it really happened; it might have been all my fault.
On commercial sites, when I end up on a page from which the back key won’t work, and my only option is to make some sort of commitment (Click “Yes! I’m just dying to know about …”), and if I try to kill the window, and get a pop-up that says “Wait! You don’t really want to navigate away from this page, do you?”
I’d call it design, though I wouldn’t call it conspiracy.
Holding down the back button should show you the full history, just select one of the pages farther back. I am not aware of any sites blocking that feature. You will still get the popup, though.
Thank you! that’s extremely helpful. The list of previous pages used to be part of a “Go to” button which disappeared, and I thought the functionality was lost forever.
I don’t think we have any features like this. If you describe exactly what happened to this guy, he may be able to figure out what’s wrong.
I was just blowing off steam about a practice I hate which is more and more common in (mostly commercial) web sites: when they’ve got you where they want you, they disallow going back. I don’t know how it really happened; it might have been all my fault.
it’s probably cock up rather than conspiracy.
On commercial sites, when I end up on a page from which the back key won’t work, and my only option is to make some sort of commitment (Click “Yes! I’m just dying to know about …”), and if I try to kill the window, and get a pop-up that says “Wait! You don’t really want to navigate away from this page, do you?”
I’d call it design, though I wouldn’t call it conspiracy.
Holding down the back button should show you the full history, just select one of the pages farther back. I am not aware of any sites blocking that feature. You will still get the popup, though.
Thank you! that’s extremely helpful. The list of previous pages used to be part of a “Go to” button which disappeared, and I thought the functionality was lost forever.