Click a link and need to go back 10x to get back. Yes, I enjoy the footballs.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s a very “dumb” implementation of a generally useful feature. Browsers don’t keep track of how many times you’re redirected to the same site or try to consolidate the back-button list accordingly, but they certainly could. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a plugin to this effect.

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      2 months ago

      They actually do. To avoid infinite loops. If a URL redirects to the identical URL for more than ~5 times most browsers will refuse to load and show an error instead.

      That’s why sites like this will generate new URLs with the same content.