Chromium devs develop measures to combat back button disablementknop

Google will implement measures to prevent websites from disabling the functionality of the back button. The sites do this through history manipulation and redirects. Google will also collect data about when and where this happens.

A post with the Chromium project shows that it is being worked on. The fix is ​​coming to all platforms where Chrome can be found: Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS and Android. There is currently no indication of when these changes will actually appear in Chrome. The metrics are cited in a separate post. It is not stated what will be done with those metrics.

Redirects work by having a user navigate to a web page first and then redirect them to the actual target web page. When a user wants to leave this page via the back button, he comes to the redirect page, which sends him back to the page he wanted to leave. The problem can be overcome by pressing the back button so much and quickly that the redirect page doesn’t get a chance to load and do its job. History manipulation uses the html5 function history.pushState, where the browsing history in the session is simply modified so that the previous page becomes the same as the current page.