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Google to penalize “back button hijacking” starting June 2026 (developers.google.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 112 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Hell yeah. Too many news sites being you to their main page when you hit the back button.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I didn't know this kind of thing was possible until recently. I straight up couldn't leave a site because of hijacking.

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago

    I almost never encounter it anymore because I habitually just open a new tab for everything. A habit I started doing because encountering it made me so angry I almost swore off computers altogether

    Super niche adjacent rage but shoutout to max-for-live developers who implement their Ableton plugins as a series of user actions so that the instant you touch the plugin it detonates your entire undo history

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    long click on the "back button" will list the history of the tab you'll be able to select the search history

    (ay least on Firefox)

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Or right-click.

    Unless the site also spams the history to fill that list so that you can't use it. Yes, I've seen that happen.

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