Have you ever been trapped by a web page, unable to use the back button to get back to the site you were previously browsing, powerless to do anything but sigh and sacrifice the whole browser tab? Turns out that you may have been the victim of “back-button hijacking,” a practice that Google is cracking down on starting on June 15.
As defined by Google, back-button hijacking occurs “when a site interferes with a user’s browser navigation and prevents them from using their back button to immediately get back to the page they came from.”
This navigational interference can present itself in multiple ways, like locking a user onto their current webpage, presenting unsolicited ads or sending users to completely new pages instead of their intended destination.
Now, Google is adding back-button hijacking to the list of malicious practices covered by its spam policies. According to the company, these practices lead to “a
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