383
Google to penalize “back button hijacking” starting June 2026
(developers.google.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
383 points (99.5% liked)
Technology
85080 readers
4391 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Who the fuck added this "feature" anyways. Pages shouldn't have any control over history in the first place.
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.