When considering intentionally confusing user experiences on the web, one scenario springs to mind - you've just done something stupid with technology, and sometimes it feels like the whole web has turned against you in your effort to find a solution.
This website puts you in the situation of someone who has just accidentally erased the data from their phone. You have found an article that looks promising, and your challenge is to get through the cookie consent popup. But that's not all that is in store for you - even once you've done that, the website hides various other surprises and annoyances.
Hackiest Hack
This website deliberately gets you to a point where you can't escape by the back button. There is some very hacky javascript behind this to creates a deliberate redirect loop between two different URLs which refer to the same page with different hash-fragments.
window.location.hash = "#failed"
addEventListener("hashchange", (event) => {
if (window.location.hash != "#failed") {
window.location.hash = "#failed"
document.getElementById("failed").innerText = "The back button doesn't help you here.";
}
});
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