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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:49:42+00:00

Is it possible to disable, or even better, replace with a custom function, window.location

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Is it possible to disable, or even better, replace with a custom function, window.location?

This question is related: Disable a built-in function in javascript (alert)

While it works quite well for window.alert, this does not work for window.location.

We would love to be able to find a way to replace or disable (replace would be ideal, so we can AJAX log) window.location… Dirty advertisers have at times before used this to steal people away from our web properties.

Any ideas?

Even something that only works on a few specific browsers would be fine as once caught (via AJAX logging) we can act on this fairly quickly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t believe you can reassign window.location. From MDN:

    Summary

    Returns a Location object, which
    contains information about the URL of
    the document and provides methods for
    changing that URL. You can also assign
    to this property to load another URL    .

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location

    As it takes a value like a property, how would you “reassign” the object/function to another value? I don’t think it’s possible due to the property behavior.

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