David Imel

But then I explained it, and you can remember a time it's happened.

Everyone's experienced it.

Yeah, exactly.

It's like when you go to usually more sketchy websites, the...

If you click in from like a Google search result, you realize that's not the page you want to be on.

And you click back and you wind up at the page you were at already.

And you click back again and you're still at the same page.

You click back again and you're still at the same page.

If you wind up holding that back button, you'll see this big... Because that's like when you show your whole history of back.

You'll notice there are like four or five pages between you and the search result you came from.

And that's back button hijacking.

There's a bunch of different ways to do it.

It's...

a tool that was made for like actually really specific things.

I think someone described like if you're in Gmail and you're inside of a email and you want to click back, it should take you still to the Gmail URL, but in your inbox instead.

That's what it's meant to do.

But people can do that to bring it to a super fast loading redirect link.

So if you're on all recipes and you go back, it's going to just whip you to all recipes again.

So nice.

you have to just like mash the back button like seven times or hold it down and come up to i mean i think most people just close the tab and start google searching again because that's the easiest way of doing it and it is infuriating yeah so finally google is now going to consider this a malicious practice and if it finds your website is partaking in those practices you could be listed as spam which will impact your performance and search results um