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Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#62Maybe just use an incognito window?
It’s pretty easy to catch someone fumbling with incognito if you can suddenly enter a room. (Not that it wouldn’t also be easy to catch someone clicking this button.)
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to start an argument but in lamence terms, renaming history to "New Tab" is as close to wiping history as a website can manage. Concealing, obfuscating, hiding might have been better words but the non technucal audience would not see an issue with the language. Nuance is important, though and i agree its slightly misleading
What does “lamence” mean?
It's an eggcorn for "layman's".
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I knew about history.replace but I had no idea you could cross sites. Suppose a site, for example, leaves a trail of Amazon Shopping, and curious, you go to it to recall what you did, but it’s Amaz0n instead.
Well there's no need to suppose. While I think if it hasn't been exploited in 30 years, there probably isn't an attack surface, you can always demonstrate and report an exploit.
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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#65The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose Shift instead of other keys, and also gives a nice overview of the pattern. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu... [2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/…
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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#66The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose Shift instead of other keys, and also gives a nice overview of the pattern. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu... [2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/…
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I suppose it's more for people trapped in abusive relationships
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#67It 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…
Not enough people know this: in Chrome and Edge, making a Guest window is usually more useful than Incognito. You do it from the profile menu. It’s a throwaway profile, without the various weird special-case behaviors (including the ones websites can detect) that “incognito” has. When you close it, it’s all discarded anyway.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#68The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose Shift instead of other keys, and also gives a nice overview of the pattern. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu... [2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/…
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Asylum-seekers, domestic abuse victims, sex trafficking victims, indentured servitude and modern slavery, etc. Access to guidance on government websites represents a way out of society's most dangerous situations for vulnerable people, and getting caught browsing the wrong help article can be risky. Automated intelligent surveillance isn't outside of the realms of the imagination, either, which is troubling
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#69It 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…
Apparently Firefox has a config option to disable this: browser.theme.dark-private-windows. Set to false, and you're set.
Thanks for the tip, but the usual open-source "you can change it" argument doesn't work in this case. People who like to control other people will interpret any deviation from the expected behavior as an attempt to hide something from them. If you change the defaults, those defaults can no longer serve as your alibi. All the more reason to ship secure defaults!
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#70The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose Shift instead of other keys, and also gives a nice overview of the pattern. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu... [2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/…
>It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times.
Windows Sticky Keys entered the room.