All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s called back button hijacking, and Google has thus far tolerated it. That ends in June, when the company ...

Google says it is expanding its policies to crack down on websites which trap users with "back button hijacking". Back button hijacking is when a website interferes with a browser so the back button ...

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?

Now do hyperlink abuse. I regularly go to a site that uses hyperlinks that look like they'd go to other source material but in fact just go right back to the same site, either the same article or one ...

Google is about to penalise websites that send users to a phantom page when they click the back button instead of actually returning them to their previous page. The search giant will classify as a ...

Google targets back button hijacking as a spam violation, says spam reports may trigger manual actions, and expands agentic ...

On June 15, Google will implement a new spam policy that will allow it to punish sites that interfere with your browser's back button. So-called “back button hijacking" is any behavior that interferes ...

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. Back button hijacking occurs when a site prevents users from ...