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Google to penalize “back button hijacking” starting June 2026 (developers.google.com)
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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 29 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Probably the old school way to do this shit

Nope. The old-school way to do it worked perfectly and didn't do any of that crap.