Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pressing the back button must take you back to the previous page you were on or else google will lower your page rating.

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• doc@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's a rather short article...

  (N)TL;DR: back should mean back. Sites that continue to make back do something else will get lower rankings in search results, which means reduced traffic and revenue.

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