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Like I said: I recognize there are legitimate uses. But unfortunately, they are majorly outnumbered by people doing things like overwriting my history so that when I hit "back", it stays on the site instead of going back to my search engine. I would love to live in the world where malicious dark patterns didn't exist, and we could have nice things. But we don't, and so I would rather not have the functionality at all.



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