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    Google wird ab Juni damit beginnen, Websites für die Entführung von Zurück-Buttons zu bestrafen

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    1. wickedplayer494 on

      A rare Google W to assert that the back button is a security feature that must never be fucked with.

      Future plc BTFO. (Now do TEGNA’s sites and cursors leaving the browser canvas next.)

    2. MakingItElsewhere on

      Glad spam/malware/etc sites are going to get delisted. I dunno if this counts, but Microsoft’s website is the biggest problem with this that I’ve ever experienced. Go to look something up, hit back button, nothing happens. Hit it a few more times, chaos ensues.

    3. GroundbreakingMall54 on

      about damn time. the amount of sketchy recipe sites that trap you in back button loops is genuinely insane. half the time i just close the tab entirely because going back is impossible

    4. Even_Package_8573 on

      That back button hijack thing is one of the most annoying UX tricks out there. You click back expecting to leave and suddenly you’re stuck in some loop or thrown into another page. Always felt shady, not clever. Feels like a lot of sites have been getting away with this for way too long

    5. grayhaze2000 on

      Does that include Reddit, who still don’t seem to be able to make the back button work consistently on desktop or mobile browsers?

    8. shaun2312 on

      So Microsoft sites that make you go back about 4 times to actually go back?

    9. IntelArtiGen on

      The problem is that browsers shouldn’t let websites decide what happens when you press the back button, they trust the devs a bit too much. But this thing has been going on for more than 10 years now so it’s a bit funny they only address this issue now. I imagine a frustrated google engineer one day spamclickling the back button: „AAAH ENOUGH!“

    10. windflex on

      Rip the days of spamming back button like the lottery hoping it only takes you one page back instead of 15 back.

    13. Dahnlor on

      Decades ago, before AdWords existed, I worked for Overture (formerly GoTo.com, later acquired by Yahoo), who were one of the first to offer pay-per-click search advertisements. We had a lot of editorial guidelines and had a team of people that would manually check every ad to make sure they were compliant. The first thing we would check is whether the back button worked.

    14. Zomunieo on

      Can they also punish pop-up ads, modal takeover boxes, email signups, anything that changes your cursor, the color teal, disabling reader mode, disabling zoom on mobile, and bottom right corner chatbots?

    15. Muzoa on

      Why don’t browsers just have another button to go back to a different domain? seems like a good feature to add.

    17. Jonny_Boy_808 on

      I’m embarrassed to say I never knew that was what’s going on, coming from someone in IT. I always just spam the back button or close the tab out, left confused why the back button wasn’t working. TIL.

    20. DankNerd97 on

      So there *is* a term for this. Good god, if I tried to verbalize just how much I utterly fucking despise Back Button Hijacking, I’d short circuit.

    22. FoxxBox on

      Good. Tired of opening a site to read an article, go to hit back and the page is like „Oh well hold on there partner! Here are some other articles that might interest you.“ Like screw you on it back to leave!

    24. mchappee on

      I’ve often wondered why the devs allow this. It’s a core function of the browser, it shouldn’t be scriptable.

    25. faygoat1 on

      Do websites that close the current tab and open in a new one figure into this? I refuse to use Instagram because of that.

    26. token_curmudgeon on

      Punishment besides the ads and tracking all Chrome users get?

      They don’t care.

    27. btrner on

      How about Google push back on itself with the search hijack to drive to its own app.

    28. tetrisan on

      Maybe the next thing they can do is start charging call spammers that use Google voice numbers to hide behind.

    30. evilgiraffe666 on

      This seems good, but why is Google the arbiter of UX design? I know governments getting involved isn’t going to be good, but maybe some independent body or industry wide group should be setting up rules rather than a single corporation, like IETF or something?

    31. rhythmrice on

      This happens to me if I click in Amazon link, no matter what I can’t go back so it makes me just not ever want to click Amazon links

    33. Anaxamenes on

      This is why I know open everything in a new tab. It’s gotten so prevalent that it’s changed behaviors. I’m also less likely to click a link in a Google search unless I’m more sure it’s what I want. Enshitification at its finest.

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