Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
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#3 (a class="quickBrowserEscape ..." target="_blank" href="https://www.google.ca/") Need to leave site for your safety? Quick Escape
$('.quickBrowserEscape').on('click', function () {
document.body.style.opacity = 0;
document.title = 'New Tab';
window.open('https://www.weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html', '_blank');
window.location.replace($('.quickBrowserEscape').attr('href')); // removes current page session DOES NOT WORK IN IE
return false;
});
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#4Brilliant feature, well done Vancouver PD. A very serious boss mode. Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't look quite right here but weather.ca is plausible.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#5Raises the question of whether browsers should have a [Replace Page, Erase Domain from History] button and hotkey.
This is a good idea that deserves to be across all Police, Help, Domestic Violence, 911, Suicide Hotline, etc sites across all countries.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#6reminds me of boss mode in leisure suit larry 1
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#7In New Zealand we have a Shielded Site popup at the bottom of all government websites, and many popular privately owned websites too.
E.g. go to govt.nz and scroll to the bottom. There's a little icon of a computer that opens a popup element inside the page.
It gives information for victims of domestic violence and abuse.
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#8Some New Zealand Government / Business sites have a Javascript-based pop-up available called Shielded Site https://shielded.co.nz/
> If you are experiencing family violence, don't worry, the information within this pop-up won't appear in your browser's history.
Pages like Banks or Council websites have it in their footer, so people can lookup information without it appearing in their history
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#9Raises the question of whether browsers should have a [Replace Page, Erase Domain from History] button and hotkey. This is a good idea that deserves to be across all Police, Help, Domestic Violence, 911, Suicide Hotline, etc sites across all countries.
Firefox already has "forget this site", which removes all traces of you ever visiting the site, but it's only available from the history modal.
Been there for probably decades, yet another thing mostly known to/used by "advanced" users.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#10It only replaces the current page, and VPD is not a single-page app. So if you've been clicking around to find something, the previous pages will still be in your history.
If you need to hide your browsing history from an abusive partner, it would be more secure to use incognito mode and hit Alt+F4 when you need to escape. Unfortunately, Chrome renders incognito windows in dark mode by default. If you're normally on light mode, the transition is extremely conspicuous. Edge and Firefox do the same. It's as if all browser vendors have colluded to make it difficult to browse in secret.