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Barry Pollard
tunetheweb.com
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The `unload` event no longer fires in Chrome by default!
Since the advent of the mobile web this has become increasingly unreliable and we think that's a footgun for devs who might think it works.
We've spent the last 3 years carefully removing it from Chrome.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/unload-deprecated-in-chrome
2026-10-16T08:11:56.055Z