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While implementing a complex PayPal integration, I encountered a very compelling reason to use window.location: it does not require SAME ORIGIN.
– Swiss Mister
Commented Jul 4, 2014 at 13:55
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Maybe it's just me but location = 'http://www.example.com' seems super readable. Albeit, as a special case. That is backwards compatible and will remain compatible in the foreseeable future.
– Alex W
Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:37
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If window.location were an object, assigning a string to it would overwrite it with a string. In fact window.location is a property which has getter and setter methods. When you set it, a string is expected and the global Location object is updated by the setter. When you get it, the global Location object is returned.
– JukkaP
Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 7:08

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