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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
#112The 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/…
I'm surprised that the blog doesn't mention what, to me, is the most obvious reason not use Esc — because it's conspicuous as all hell! If somebody's at risk and wants to hide what they're doing, their abuser seeing them repeatedly hit Esc just screams "I'm trying to hide something".
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
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I guess gov.uk is in fact the expert at history wiping patterns, especially when it comes to mass gang based violation of thousands of young girls from broken homes that they are complicit in the abuse of for decades.
A quick wipe and that didn’t happen. Works wonders.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#114I've implemented quick exit/escape buttons for a few organisations over the years and have spent a bit of time thinking about the limitations. This pattern is definitely better than most and it is refreshing seeing they put some resources into it. In my professional experience, organisations often chose the "a link to another site like google is fine" option to save money and time while still getting to boast about t…
It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iPhone correctly. When I click on the Back button (from weather.gc.ca), it goes back to the Vancouver PD site. Therefore I do not think that it is built well.
The other site someone mentioned (https://www.thetrevorproject.org/) doesn't have that issue.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#115Isn't that what "incognito mode" is for? Why should random websites have the capability to wipe themselves from history?
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#116Isn't that what "incognito mode" is for? Why should random websites have the capability to wipe themselves from history?
Because people who need help from the police and have to hide their tracks might not be completely technically literate. Or indeed fully literate at all.
This page serves the 0.01% most vulnerable.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.
A quick check shows that they don't store anything as cookies or any other browser storage. The thing that still works is the back button after the redirection to Google, and you can still un-close the tab with Ctr-Shf-T which pops the Google page with back history intact. They have "cache-control: max-age=0" which probably should be changed to "cache-control: no-store". Still, the back button has the history if the…
> Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement
That's what the "document.body.style.opacity = 0;" is for. Though I agree emptying out the body is probably better.
Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#118The 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/…
That blog entry is a delight to read! > As a result of advertising people being bastards, The gov.uk Design Team are a treasure.
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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#119the favicon isn't removed
It is in Firefox. Which browser are you using?
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/re... This is known and commonly used -- since 1996. What's the risk? You can't change records about other domains.
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.
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