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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RUtrt9ECLL4/google-working-on-blocking-back-button-hijacking-in-chrome
Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome
Google engineers are currently working on a Chrome browser update that will block malicious websites from hijacking the browser's history and, indirectly, the Back button. From a report: The issue at hand is a well-known tactic often seen employed by many shady sites across the Internet. A user would visit a website, then he'd accidentally click or tap on an ad, and be taken to a new page. But when the user presses the Back button to go back to the previous page, the browser just reloads the same page over and over again, keeping the user trapped on the ad page. [...] Recent source code updates to the Chromium project, the open-source browser engine behind the Chrome browser, reveal that Google engineers are planning to crack down on this type of abusive behavior. These code updates will allow Chrome to detect when browser history entries have been generated by user interaction, or by an automated method.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RUtrt9ECLL4/google-working-on-blocking-back-button-hijacking-in-chrome
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