A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"

Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by Tepix on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:08AM (#47761463)

In most browsers you can hold the back button for a second and it will let you skip back more than one step.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by AndrewDucker on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:12AM (#47761860)

You can right-click on the back button in Firefox to see a list of previous sites to go back to.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by notpushkin on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @05:00AM (#47763060)

Yeah, it’s the same feature, just two different gestures. (And long tap works with Firefox on Android, btw.)

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by Kab1r on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:14AM (#47761507)

And some websites consume the entire history that a browser displays in that menu

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by SuperNinKenDo on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:38PM (#47767906)

Has definitely happened to me. Especially if I try the "click back a couple times quickly" method first.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by SuperNinKenDo on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:37PM (#47767890)

Probably should have mentioned it, but I was on my phone browser where that option either doesn't exist or isn't surfaced well. A long press on the back button just does the same thing as tapping once, so I'm all out of ideas.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by NetMageSCW on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:59PM (#47770680)

Probably should also mention which phone browser on which phone OS.

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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:38AM (#47779648)

Why on earth would I go out of my way to publicise that information in a public forum?

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