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Agreed. If the content isn't really designed for the wide world, the www hostname seems to be self-defeating, or at least describing the wrong thing.
So how do you agree? You're saying the opposite they said.
It is important to make it as easy as possible to get to the main content of the site.
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That's funny, right before this I was just reading about how some idiot I knew from back in the day beat the shit out of some stranger on the SkyTrain for his headphones. Maybe it's time to realize how fucked Vancouver is and that the cops aren't the problem
Vancouver is fucked in many ways but general safety is not one of them. Quality of life is quite good if one can afford.
The 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.
- Escape is simply unusable.
- Alt alone leaves the viewport and goes to menu, making further keypresses unregistered
- control is inconsistently placed on keyboards (e.g. laptops) which they don't say directly in the blog, makes extra sense if you recall it suggests not using devices the abuser might be admin/monitoring (public devices, friend devices, etc). It also is highly selected by other assistive technology products just like sticky keys.
They also recognized the issue... And tested it against JAWS and using it with on-screen keyboards
Seems they were very thorough.
0: https://beeps.website/blog/2024-10-09-why-govuk-exit-this-pa...
Note: this is the same link as in the grandparent post
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This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.
I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/34...
It’s so prevalent it even has a name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalkerware
Don’t underestimate an abuser’s ability to find a way.
For example, there is a favicon cache in firefox.
If you query favicons.sqlite in your profile directory:
select * from moz_pages_w_icons order by id desc limit 10;
Because same methods can also used by bad actors for deceptive and spammy actions and we are not allowed to have nice things ever.
Therefore Google has something against messing with browser navigation state back button behavior and history such actions usually got demoted in rankings.
I think it's also fine for all sort of marginal and ephemeral actions that should not spam the browser history, like panning over a map or how far you scrolled down a page, but want to end up back there on reload and shares possibly.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-butto...
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I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major
Have fun exploring the list of things we've caught abusers actually using. [0] Or don't. Reading and keeping your soul intact aren't compatible. I am 100% sure that some do, thanks to firsthand life. And any doing it, is enough to get people dead, even if 99% don't. And yes, CS majors can be abusers, too. [0] https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/domestic-family-violen...