Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.

    • Dem Bosain
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      7 months ago

      Every single Microsoft site still does this.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I mean there are still websites that open themselves 10 times so you can’t click back out of them. I am curious as to what their end game is. Do they imagine we go “well damn can’t go back out of this page, might as well start living here now”

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      <script> function openNewWindow() {

        window.open("https://this.site.com", "_blank");
      
        newWindow.moveTo(0, 0);
        
        newWindow.resizeTo(screen.width, screen.height);
      
      }
      
      window.onbeforeunload = function() {
        openNewWindow();
      };
      

      </script>