Browser history getting inundated with useless entries (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Kokanee08@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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I use an android phone (pixel 6a) and my default web browser is Chrome.

When I browse Lemmy through the web app, my chrome history starts to look like the attached picture, with 100s of entries over the past week or so. If I click on any of them it just brings me to my lemmy homepage.

Anyone have a solution for this? Preferably for nothing to show up in the history (similar to browsing in incognito mode), or alternatively for the history to actually reflect the posts that I clicked into?

Or is this the intended behaviour?

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[-] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This behavior also exists on Opera. I think this is just an inherit feature of being a PWA. It's still using a browser, whichever one you were using when you clicked "install". My only suggestion to avoid this is to use a different different browser dedicated to Lemmy that you don't use for anything else.

[-] Kokanee08@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

As an update, I found a discussion thread about this on the voyager GitHub, but it's still unanswered

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/discussions/141

[-] revs@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Install it as an app?

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I have wefwef/Voyager installed as an app and my Chrome history is still filled with spam.

[-] Kokanee08@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I have it installed as an app too. Good to know that others are having the same thing happen. I wonder if it's specific to chrome

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fwiw doesn’t happen in safari on iOS when installed as a webapp.

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

By design. Rare safari win

[-] HappySerf@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Where the Firefoxers at

[-] james@lurk.fun 6 points 1 year ago

I'm using it installed as an app with Firefox on Android and it also shows pages in history.

I think this is somewhat expected behavior though, since you are in fact visiting web pages...

Would it be better if the title updated to reflect what feed/post you were viewing?

[-] oohgodyeah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have IceRaven, a Firefox fork, set as my default browser on my Android. This issue is present using the webapp but in my IceRaven browser history as well. It does make browser history pretty useless, filling the log up without each article actual title.