Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by fragmede on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:07PM
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> the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link.
It's entirely possible the browser itself does, but that the site's JavaScript is (also) overriding the right click handler. There's browser extensions to override their override but having to do that is stupid.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by myself248 on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:40PM
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I've installed one of those and it doesn't seem to help in the ecommerce case.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by kevincox on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:49PM
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It's possible but this seems to be quite rare. In my experience it is always just that they think a div with an onclick handler is the same thing as a link.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
by mghackerlady on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @02:20PM
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why did we even allow this to be overridden in the first place? if you genuinely need that much control, stop shipping a webapp! JS canvas is another thing that really shouldn't exist
I agree, ecommerce sites are the place that I most often want to open several items in tabs and decide between them, and the place this function is most often blocked! I wish I could scream at the jerk who implemented this, but that jerk is not among the options of screamable people.