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A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Post by NooneAtAll3 »

is there a policy on "home button hijacking"?

I'm tired of apps that intercept home button to ask "are you sure?" - home button is home button, return me to the main phone screen

also, ads at the bottom of the screen, so that if you miss home button you open a website

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Post by imiric »

> We believe that the user experience comes first.

If by "user" you mean advertisers, sure you do. Everyone else is an asset to extract as much value from as possible. You actively corrupt their experience.

The fact these companies control the web and its major platforms is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern era.

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

#83

Post by karim79 »

bob1029 wrote: post #80

This seems like a good time to advertise the post/redirect/get pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get Not strictly about hijacking back navigation but it can make experience less bumpy if you've got form submissions in the middle of the path.

I'm a huge fan of this pattern (and as a greybeard). I honestly wonder if people think about such things this day and age where everything is react.

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Post by onli »

hysan wrote: post #61

Took long enough. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see them say how invested they are in tackling this. Promoting a rule is one thing, but everything SEO related becomes a cat and mouse game. I don’t have high confidence that this will work.

Seems invested enough to me. Adding this to the anti spam policy means they will list sites using this lower or not at all, when detected. And they use automated and manual detection for such things. Not much more they can do? And should be effective, who employs scam tactics like this is also interested in having visitors.

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Post by kaelwd »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #42
twism wrote: post #23

Reddit! I'm looking at you?

Scroll on Reddit on mobile and click on a link. The comments open in a new tab. Close the tab and the previous tab is also at the link you’ve just closed. Makes it impossible to browse around and long click to open on a new tab doesn’t solve the issue either.

And if the tab was unloaded then you press back it changes the URL but not the actual contents of the page.

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

#88

Post by asimovDev »

kiddico wrote: post #47
endgame wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot even reliably press [Space] any more to page down through sites that are meant to be all about content!

I've always found that behavior baffling so it's interesting to hear someone using it as intended instead of being frustrated by it.

i love it. my mac doesn't have the home row (don't know if that's how that row of buttons is called) so I use spacebar and shift+spacebar as pgdown and pgup when I am reading

Re: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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Post by AndrewDucker »

Tepix wrote: post #46
SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happened to me yesterday through a link off here. I was already expecting it given the domain, but usually mashing back fast enough does the trick eventually. Not this time. Had to kill the tab.

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

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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