@WolfIsMe I've tested this. The history is NOT erased on firefox!, at least in my test, using version 125.0.1. The site was still changed, although the trevor project is still shown on screen while it loads.
Chromium 123.0.6312.122 and Chrome 122.0.6261.128 worked fine.
If you want to avoid the browser history, open the page in a private window (ctrl+shift+p), that way no history is kept in the first place (although closed tabs can still be restored (ctrl+shift+t) until the window is closed).
Also, just closing the browser window (alt+f4) or current tab (ctrl+w) is way faster than 3xESC & waiting for a new page to load. You can open something innocuous behind it, if you'd like.
Oh and as expected 3xESC doesn't work at all in the Tor Browser (unless you configure the site to allow popups, but even then it is way too slow to be effective).
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of their quick-exit feature, and, if you can only press a single button at a time, 3xESC is a useful shortcut to have, and by implementing it themselves they can make it browser-agnostic, but there exist better methods of achieving the same thing in most cases.
Pressing ESC three times navigates the page to the Google start page and also opens a second tab with the Google start page, but the Trevor Project URL is still clearly present in the browser's history (tested on current Firefox).
Incognito mode window works better (Ctrl+Shift+P on Firefox), assuming no other child surveillance software is present.
@guenther@WolfIsMe@meganecko same results for Safari, but The Trevor Project could solve this on the back end by eliminating data collection / telemetry / tracking technologies on their entire site or at least the support page.
and as you pointed out, this assumes the network and device aren't being monitored.
i really luv their intent here, but this has me wanting to chew on this more to find a more fireproof solution. thanks for flagging y'all!
@guenther@WolfIsMe@meganecko right, that's what i'm getting at. it solves half the equation because clearing history doesn't clear website data, but if their web data is never placed, it eliminates those additional steps.
from there, it's all about finding alternative ways to purge the other breadcrumbs in case a private browsing mode wasn't used or can't be because it's disabled.
@WolfIsMe@aral kind of concerning that only the last browser history entry is replaced with Google if you try this with Safari on iOS. Hope they don’t navigate around? 👀
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