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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by Jaruzel on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:13AM (#12732685)
Most (if not all) default browsers on mobile, auto scroll/hide the navigation bar off the display after a few seconds. For most non-techie users this means it's 'gone'. Ergo, they have no back button anymore. I've watched many people just open/shut/open/shut their mobile browser just to get back to previous pages - in many cases even re-searching the same query over and over again.

This is modus operandi for many users, hence why Google inserting a big 'go back to Google' banner at the top, is a bad[1] thing.

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[1] Or from the standard user point of view, a good thing.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by majewsky on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:00AM (#12732991)
But this is just an iOS thing, right? Android has either a hardware back button, or a software back button that's always shown (except for fullscreen apps, such as Youtube and games).
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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by cbraz on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:03AM (#12733189)
Software buttons hide when using full screen apps and can be made visible again by a swipe from the bottom.
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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by crucialfelix on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:49AM (#12732964)
On Samsung Android the back button (↩) is always on the bottom right of the device (below the screen)

For the browser that is back, and if you opened the page in a new window then back means close it and reveal the previous page.

Maybe not everybody realizes that and uses it. I didn't at first but now it's a happy habit.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by skykooler on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:05AM (#12733948)
Isn't Google in charge of Android? Seems like they could fix the button-hiding there instead of adding an HTML workaround for every AMQP website.
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