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Thanks for the feedback, Vercel domain uses nuqs [1] (I'm the author) for URL state, and I agree flooding the browser history is a bad experience.

Is there a way to update the URL (ie: keeping it reactive in the address bar) without creating those history entries, or to ask the browser to squash the last entry it created into the previous one?

[1] https://nuqs.dev

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I am not aware of any approaches that work consistently across all major browsers. This matter is nothing new -- there's a Bugzilla report[0] from 13 years ago about this behavior that remains open.

Since there's no spec for global history and it's unlikely one will be introduced, the most practical solution to avoid flooding the browser history would be to debounce the changes.

This is the approach taken by Google Maps -- with maps being a well-known case where URL updates would clutter the history, as noted in the Bugzilla report.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753264

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