Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by Mate4 on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:07AM
(#47763555)
Firefox allows you to bypass right click hijacking by holding shift before pressing right click.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by gonzalohm on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:48AM
(#47767215)
There is also an option in about:config: "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" set it to false
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by ivanjermakov on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:23AM
(#47764139)
Don't get me started on scroll hijacking.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by amadeuspagel on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:29AM
(#47764202)
This misses the point. Websites are allowed to replace default keyboard shortcuts for a reason. There are only a few exceptions to this, like Ctrl+W. In other words, you can design your website however you want, except to make it more difficult to leave. This is an implementation of the same philosophy.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by Havoc on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:46AM
(#47764360)
> you can design your website however you want, except to make it more difficult to leave.
Who decreed that page navigation is in scope and search navigation is outside?
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by arielcostas on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:26AM
(#47763701)
Some also hijack the shortcuts to open devtools (like F12), so you have to find the option in the browser menu itself
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by lebuin on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:19AM
(#47764099)
You can also click the address bar and then press you shortcut. Should be faster and works for all shortcuts AFAIK.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by david_allison on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:44AM
(#47764946)
Thank you!
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by taco_emoji on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:03AM
(#47766575)
CTRL+F hijacking is necessary in some cases when apps are not displaying the full text that the user would expect to search. E.g. when there's a 10K-line code file and the UI is not loading the whole thing into DOM, but the user would expect a "find" to search that whole code file.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by rat_on_the_run on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:48AM
(#47767220)
They can have a search button for that, not hijacking default browser functions. Often I want both kinds of search.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by pornel on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:47AM
(#47767205)
Browsers can deal with very long documents. Ctrl+F works like a breeze on HTML that's 100K lines long.
Browsers only struggle to run heavy JS frameworks that wrap every line in a dozens of spans with dozens of handlers and mutate it all on every line scrolled.
So jarring when websites replace core functionality with their own broken crap because they think they’re special.
Some also seem to hijack right click menu now