Google to punish sites that trap people in with back button tricks

The tech giant said it will punish sites that block back button navigation from June.

Google to punish sites that trap people in with back button tricks

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Adam Thompson, director of digital at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, told the BBC: “Practices like back button hijacking undermine the basic user experience and break the expectations people have of how the web should work, so it’s understandable that Google views this as a harmful behaviour and [is]

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