Have you ever been trapped by a web page, unable to use the back button to get back to the site you were previously browsing, ...

All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s called back button hijacking, ...

Starting later this spring, Google Search will penalize sites that interfere with normal web browser back button ...

Google is now working to kill back button hijacking on its browsers by effecting a new policy change everyone has to abide by ...

Google is tackling a problem that we've all dealt with on the internet.

An update to Google’s spam policies includes a new “malicious practice” that could get websites demoted: “Back button hijacking,” which is when a website stops users from leaving with their browser’s ...

Under a new policy that 9to5Google spotted, Google will treat back button hijacking as an "explicit violation of the ...

In a post on the Google Developers blog, the company said it is designating back button hijacking as a malicious practice. It ...

Google added back button hijacking to its malicious practices spam policy. Enforcement starts June 15, 2026. Sites have two ...

You have until June 15, 2026 to remove the back button code before Google begins to take action.

Google is cracking down on back button hijacking, expanding spam policies and warning sites ahead of enforcement starting June 15, 2026.

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new ...