alt Hacker NewsIf you have JavaScript enabled, that is. JWZ at least does the redirect on the server side.
The following is pulled in from `https://soc.me/assets/js/turnBack.js`:
const undesirables = [
"news.ycombinator.com/",
// "reddit.com/", // disable temporaily
"lobste.rs/"
] ;
if (undesirables.find(site => document.referrer.includes(site))) {
window.location.replace(document.referrer);
}
Replies
mechazawa • today at 11:42 AM
Why are they undesirable though
Git history doesn't explain it unfortunately
https://github.com/soc/soc.me/blame/main/assets/js/turnBack....
Although, when we inspect author's profile on lobste.rs, we'll see that he's banned:
https://lobste.rs/~soc [Banned 4 years ago by pushcx: Troll.]
Maybe he's banned from HN as well. And this 'undesirables' is a method of taking some kind of revenge.