How come sometimes when you go to a website, you can click "Back" and go back to where you

[raccoon]

were before, and sometimes you can't?

[kentauros]

1. Too many of them set up the link as a kind of "trap"

You have to use the history button (or right-click on the back button) in order to find the previous page. You can keep hitting the back button, but sometimes the site has loaded dozens of pages between your last and their primary home link. I assume it's a marketing ploy. Only evil marketing types would invent such a thing

[OriginalGeek]

2. I am fairly well convinced

that around 80~90% of all evil in the world ultimately stems from marketing.



I once entertained the notion of possibly entering the field myself however it turned out that I was not sufficiently callous, cynical or contemptuous of my fellow man.



I am certainly all of those things - just not sufficiently enough to be in marketing.

[kentauros]

3. Good analysis!

I never had an interest in marketing, yet did like the art and design associated with it. It makes me wonder if the few clients I ever had in that field were marketers in disguise with regards to how they approached getting work from others...

[Yavin4]

4. Bill Hicks on Marketing

[kentauros]

6. And nothing has changed for the better.

They're still like that! Although I'd add futurists to the mix, too

[Yavin4]

7. That clip was before the internet

Things have gotten worse.

[kentauros]

9. Indeed they have.

In fact, I have recently come to the conclusion that some bakers have taken the marketing mindset to heart. That is, no matter what instructions you give them, they will find some way of screwing it up!

NATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY




For some bakers, if you had actually requested that they write "Happy Birthday, Brain" that no matter how empahtic you get in the instructions, it's going to come out "Happy Birthday, Brian", because they're going for the dyslexics' dollar

[hibbing]

8. They are really good at marketing themselves too

Ugh, not a fan of the various marketing people that have come and gone at work. One thing they all have had in common is marketing themselves. In any meetings they would also produce lists of 5 different things they are working on and would always have something to show.

Peace

[NobodyHere]

5. Probably because there was information sent to the page.

When you go beyond a page some session info may be deleted.

Some pages don't require information so you can hit the back button as much as you please.

edit: I meant to reply to the OP