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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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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Who the fuck added this "feature" anyways. Pages shouldn't have any control over history in the first place.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Humans are weird and UX wants the web app to behave how humans expect it to behave. That's how we got here. There's a whole host of reasons why manipulating browser history is awful, but here we are.

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