Who the fuck added this “feature” anyways. Pages shouldn’t have any control over history in the first place.
Wait… This sounds… Good?
That can’t be right, this is 2026, we cannot possibly be watching a tech company do an actual good thing.
They didn’t even shove AI in there. This has gotta be fake, right?
It’s so you can go back to Google search and view more of their ads.
I checked the date in case it was an April fool.
Hell yeah. Too many news sites being you to their main page when you hit the back button.
I didn’t know this kind of thing was possible until recently. I straight up couldn’t leave a site because of hijacking.
I almost never encounter it anymore because I habitually just open a new tab for everything. A habit I started doing because encountering it made me so angry I almost swore off computers altogether
Super niche adjacent rage but shoutout to max-for-live developers who implement their Ableton plugins as a series of user actions so that the instant you touch the plugin it detonates your entire undo history
long click on the “back button” will list the history of the tab you’ll be able to select the search history
(ay least on Firefox)
RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.
Bro you just need to run sfc /scannow one more time. Just trust me bro
This is almost as annoying as websites disabling right click (there is an extension that re-enables it on command though)
And sites handling every link with JavaScript, making Ctrl - click to open in a new tab impossible
Fuck all sites that break basic browser functions
To nitpick for nitpicking’s sake: You can make Ctrl+Click work in JS.
Or disabling paste in password and bank account fields. Which is a literal crime in the US but never enforced.
God I hate when apps don’t have properly marked fields. You can mark your fields as username/password/street address/phone number/etc and browsers will automatically be able to detect them. So they can suggest autofill for the respective fields. But so many sites just… Refuse to properly mark their fields?
I know autofill hijacking was a problem for a while. For instance, a malicious ad could have off-screen autofill fields. So your browser would autofill them and the ad would capture the data. It was super scummy, and is why browsers moved towards prompting for autofill instead of just doing it automatically. But this is no excuse for sites to break paste on their own fields. It adds nothing to security, and only encourages weak passwords.
I for one would like to take a moment to enjoy this small win and bask in the idea of there being actual improvements in technology.
Well it’s about time they do something impact full and useful. This would be a useful thing I think
☞ impactful
☞ use full
This isnt help full
Coming from the creator of a search engine that does “anchor hijacking” where it sends a request about what link you click even if you hover over the link and only see the original URL in the bottom.
Rare Google W.
