Long considered malicious website behavior (and defined as abusive by Google), back button hijack is starting to rear its ugly head again. The lower panel in the image is what tomshardware.com displays when the back button is selected. The enshittification continues.

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[–] 38 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Replicated in Safari on iOS.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago*

    Tomshardware.com whois:

    Registrar: Lexsynergy Limited

    IANA ID: 1466

    Email: domains@lexsynergy.com

    Abuse Email: abuse@lexsynergy.com

    Abuse Phone: +442031370459

    Some poor web developer was told to implement this against their will. Hopefully they raised the concern. Report the site as abusive until their registrar takes them down. Should make for a fun week for that POS project manager.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Can't reproduce on Firefox on Android

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Strange, it doesn't do that for me with Firefox on Linux. Not even when I turn off my adblocker.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I went to a website on desktop (android central dot com) that popped something like that up when I moved my mouse out of the content in the window. So annoying.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Super annoying shit, happens all the time in firefox on Android with ublock origin, also happens on other sites that I think are from the same network.

    My solution is to stay away from them, that's what they get for forcing this shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Any plugin or config that can prevent this?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Block everything.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Use RSS to fetch the feeds instead

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