Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history • Hacker News Board

phillipseamore wrote: post #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…

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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Post by protocolture » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

But when the Vancouver PD are beating you up, you wont have time to load the page to locate the quick escape button.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Post by hoherd » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

albeebe1 wrote: post #6

reminds me of boss mode in leisure suit larry 1

lemmings.exe also had an immediate quit without warning on the esc key, iirc.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Post by herpderperator » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

CarlJW wrote: post #7

In 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.

https://govt.nz isn't a thing, but https://www.govt.nz is.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Post by mondobe » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC

The Trevor Project (LGBTQ support/suicide prevention site) has the same thing, triggered by a hotkey (press ESC three times). https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Post by SpecialistK » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

zuzululu wrote: post #12

its too bad they do very little fighting actual crime same with montreal pd probably two least effective and disliked departments in all of canada

Any large city's PD is going to be controversial. From the experience of people close to me who work with police, the VPD are better run and have more programs like Car 33 than the RCMP in neighbouring jurisdictions.

Many of the perceived issues come from (I'll say it) corrupt judges who let out career petty criminals on a bail-less "promise to appear." Some officers report arresting the same person twice in one shift.

At least it's not TPS, where the chief likes to protect officers who commit perjury in the name of framing an innocent man for a Sergeant's suicide.