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Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June (arstechnica.com)
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[–] hoch@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Rare Google W

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

Penalize them with reduced search prominence? Search is so bad right now that we or the perpetrator may never discover they've been penalized.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 12 points 23 hours ago

To be honest, I'm for this change.

To often have I pressed the back button and not actually gone back to the page I was on before, like I intended.

[–] Nomad 6 points 23 hours ago

I'm all for it as long as its implemented properly. There are plenty of legitimate use cases for history rewriting.

So if they punish sites for trapping you there, hell yeah. If they demote you for providing a conclusive user experience that would suck alot.

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will that include Facebook?

[–] atropa@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's Facebook ?

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Who's Facebook ?