• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 hour

    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?

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 hours

    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.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    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.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    7 hours

    Why weren’t they going after this 10 years ago? I think I’ve just gotten into the habit of “open in new tab” because I know there’s a good chance “back” won’t do what I want.

    Frankly, here on PieFed, “back” to a feed isn’t very useful, because you’ll just land somewhere in the feed, not back to the place where you started. “Open in new tab” solves that as well, for certain very small values of “solves.”

    • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4 hours

      oh shit I thought that was just a brave/tablet problem on Lemmy. It’s definitely mildly infuriating to have been moved down half the feed when hitting back, thought the browser was recognizing I was halfway down a comment section or something so it was registering the movement when I went back or something. On PC I just do new tabs (habit) like you said so I never notice it.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10 hours

    This is almost as annoying as websites disabling right click (there is an extension that re-enables it on command though)

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      Or disabling paste in password and bank account fields. Which is a literal crime in the US but never enforced.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        32 minutes

        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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      8 hours

      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

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        6 hours

        To nitpick for nitpicking’s sake: You can make Ctrl+Click work in JS.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 hours

      You can hold shift to ignore a site’s hook for that.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    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.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      Bro you just need to run sfc /scannow one more time. Just trust me bro

        • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          I’m a Microsoft MVP.

          I don’t reboot my computer I just reformat and reinstall every time I start it.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 hours

      They could always go back to compliance with web standards and abandon their shitty Javascript bullshit.

      Haha. Just kidding, they’d never do anything that sensible.

  • A_Drusas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    Hell yeah. Too many news sites being you to their main page when you hit the back button.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      I didn’t know this kind of thing was possible until recently. I straight up couldn’t leave a site because of hijacking.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12 hours

        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

      • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12 hours

        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)

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9 hours

          Or right-click.

          Unless the site also spams the history to fill that list so that you can’t use it. Yes, I’ve seen that happen.

            • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4 hours

              Unfortunately, so called legit sites do this shit now too. So you may find government, school, or work forcing you to interact with asshats like this.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    10 hours

    While they’re at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?

    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      I have successfully taught my children that if they play a game that requires ads between attempts at playing the game, that usually is faster to force close the game and start from the beginning again than wait for the ad to finish.

      I’m so proud to see them just “nope” out of ads immediately.

      • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
        6 hours

        Good practice, but consider putting something like Dnsnet on the phone to fully block all ads:

        https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet

        It starts a small “VPN” client that will filter incoming/outgoing traffic for any add content and kill it before it gets sent. Its free and works great on any android device, rooted or not.

        • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          I have a pi-hole at home to block them when they’re on Wi-Fi. I’ll look into that for when they’re out and about

          • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
            4 hours

            Toss nextdns.io into the mix if you have technical chops. Its a great way to filter ads at the DNS level that is also free. I use that in my pi hole setup as the DNS to just layer and layer on more filtering.

            Sponsorblock is also great for things that YouTube videos to filter out ad reads/self promo/etc in YouTube videos.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    12 hours

    I remember a long time ago complaining about a shitty pattern like this (specifically, bombing your history by artificially making a shitload of redirects and thus making the back button useless. Probably the old school way to do this shit). Back then I was told by web devs “this is how the web works, you can’t have a browser detect and block this!”.

    Fuck that.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 hours

      Probably the old school way to do this shit

      Nope. The old-school way to do it worked perfectly and didn’t do any of that crap.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13 hours

    Honestly good move. While i never get redirected, most i get is website begging for click. “Are u leavin? Plz don’t leave, here’s mor articl you might be interested with” no thanks and fuck you.

  • JelleWho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 hours

    Well it’s about time they do something impact full and useful. This would be a useful thing I think