Microsoft, one of the largest offenders, over here caring exactly zero shits.

FINALLY!

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

RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

This is almost as annoying as websites disabling right click (there is an extension that re-enables it on command though)

Wait.... This sounds... Good?

That can't be right, this is 2026, we cannot possibly be watching a tech company do an actual good thing.

They didn't even shove AI in there. This has gotta be fake, right?

Why weren't they going after this 10 years ago? I think I've just gotten into the habit of "open in new tab" because I know there's a good chance "back" won't do what I want.

Frankly, here on PieFed, "back" to a feed isn't very useful, because you'll just land somewhere in the feed, not back to the place where you started. "Open in new tab" solves that as well, for certain very small values of "solves."

I remember a long time ago complaining about a shitty pattern like this (specifically, bombing your history by artificially making a shitload of redirects and thus making the back button useless. Probably the old school way to do this shit). Back then I was told by web devs "this is how the web works, you can't have a browser detect and block this!".

Fuck that.

Well it's about time they do something impact full and useful. This would be a useful thing I think

Honestly good move. While i never get redirected, most i get is website begging for click. "Are u leavin? Plz don't leave, here's mor articl you might be interested with" no thanks and fuck you.

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

I for one would like to take a moment to enjoy this small win and bask in the idea of there being actual improvements in technology.

Coming from the creator of a search engine that does "anchor hijacking" where it sends a request about what link you click even if you hover over the link and only see the original URL in the bottom.

A lot of online tests are going to get a lot easier, hehe

Yesssss, broken clock theorem at work

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

Rare Google W.

Wait this is a generic web thing? Or limited to google chrome? I got confused