Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15
Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
9to5Google Abner Li
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Discussion
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Barry Adams
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I am 100% in favour of this. — Introducing a new spam policy for “back button hijacking” — developers.google.com/search/blog/ ...
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Catalin Cimpanu
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I could have spent my entire 10-year reporter career writing articles about back button hijacking techniques — Google sure took its sweet damn time... 😑 [embedded post]