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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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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

While they're at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?

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

    I have successfully taught my children that if they play a game that requires ads between attempts at playing the game, that usually is faster to force close the game and start from the beginning again than wait for the ad to finish.

    I'm so proud to see them just "nope" out of ads immediately.

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

    Good practice, but consider putting something like Dnsnet on the phone to fully block all ads:

    https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet

    It starts a small "VPN" client that will filter incoming/outgoing traffic for any add content and kill it before it gets sent. Its free and works great on any android device, rooted or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have a pi-hole at home to block them when they're on Wi-Fi. I'll look into that for when they're out and about

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Toss nextdns.io into the mix if you have technical chops. Its a great way to filter ads at the DNS level that is also free. I use that in my pi hole setup as the DNS to just layer and layer on more filtering.

    Sponsorblock is also great for things that YouTube videos to filter out ad reads/self promo/etc in YouTube videos.

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