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Re:Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking by nikanj on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:01AM (#18714008)
A lot of seedier sites already abuse these mechanisms, by doing nasty things when you click to close a GDPR notification, focus a search box, or similar intention.

Browsers will probably never be clever enough to tell which clicks had "the right kind" of intention. The arms race continues!

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Re:Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking by ht85 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:37AM (#18714162)
Yeah but in that case the malicious website should only be allowed to push a single frame, allowing you to escape by going back twice.

This is much better then the current solution where you have to long-clicking the back button and manually pick a safe entry.

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