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		emilfihlman on May 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review It's not directly an issue with TechCrunch but the lack of an api that does not push a history state OR pollute your history. Ie you can't change the visible URL without at least one of these happening (and it's infuriating)!

fiskfiskfisk on May 11, 2020 [–]

Isn't that what the `History.replaceState()` method achieves?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...

emilfihlman on May 14, 2020 | [–]

Nope, it will result in a history entry added to your history (even if nothing is added to the immediate backwards forwards history).

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