Ramblings

Would It Be Possible To Create A Website You Can’t Leave?

Probably sounds like a dumb question, doesn’t it? Well, I think it could be possible. There’s a Javascript function that executes when the window or tab is closed, and another when you try to navigate away from the website, so what if those functions were set to execute, and launch a popup window with the said page in it? Is there something that stops this, and if not, why have I not seen it before? It sounds like exactly the kind of thing some people would do, and, more worryingly, it’s something that the scammers and spammers and virus-spreading sites might do?

Of course it’s not impossible to leave a site like that, but it would be damned difficult, and I can’t think of any way of doing it, other than shutting the browser totally :\

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