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TexanFellerlast Tuesday at 3:37 PM1 replyview on HN

When I first heard of the APIs that allowed websites to modify browser history it sounded like a huge mistake. I still feel that way to this day.


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dylan604last Tuesday at 3:47 PM

It only made sense in the SPA way of working. Allowing the history to be updated would allow the browser's default navigation to work. Outside of SPA type of sites, it was only ever going to be abused.