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Yeah, you have to long press on the back button and then select the previous site from the history dropdown. I hate sites like this, and actively avoid them

• iainmerrick 6y ago
  This has been annoying me too. I’ll definitely be avoiding TechCrunch now. What I don’t understand is, what exactly are they trying to do? Is this just a bug, and it’s only supposed to hijack the back button once? I can see (reluctantly) how a single hijack might nudge users to stick around longer, but surely there’s no upside to infinite hijacking...?
  • lazyjones 6y ago
    > what exactly are they trying to do? Is this just a bug It might be important for SEO: It assesses the number of people who leave your page by hitting the back button to return to the search listing page. If Google sends 1,000 people to one of your web pages and each of those 1,000 people hit the back button within a few seconds, it tells Google your web page isn’t relevant. https://www.quicksprout.com/ranking-factors/ https://www.quicksprout.com/ranking-factors/
    • iainmerrick 6y ago
      Ugh, that’s nasty! Sounds plausible, though.