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What 'back button behavior' are we talking about... noticed nothing when just clicking through a few articles and back, and then back out of slashdot completely.

Though it might have been blocked by ublock-origin or some other addon without noticiing it.

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When it functions as intended, the site hijacks the back button to offer you a series of “articles” to read “before you go.”

I’m currently viewing on Safari on iOS through a firewall with a spam deny list. Whether the ad hits my deny list or not, the only way to go back from the site is to hold the back button and manually select a different page.

On mobile Safari, /. "traps" you on their site by causing the back button/back swipe gesture to return you back to their site. I am not sure exactly how -- haven't looked at the code.

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