The internet is a dangerous place. If you aren’t careful, you could end up downloading an unwanted file, opening an infected email, or seeing something you desperately wish you could unsee. But the ways in which bad agents change how we use the internet aren’t always so obvious or destructive. Sometimes, the issue can be as simple as not being able to back out of a website with the back button, forcing us to close the tab entirely to escape.
If you’ve never experienced this phenomenon (lucky you!), here’s how it works: You search for something on Google, click a link, and realize the site isn’t for you. You click the back button on your browser, but nothing happens. You click again — still nothing. Only after mashing repeatedly will you finally be returned to the original Google Search page (or, in all likelihood, several pages before that, because you clicked too many times).
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Chrome will finally take on sites that try to block you from using the back button originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 15:41:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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