It's finally come up and stay for the spammers. Google has started sending out emails to sites that are actively hijacking the back button.
Warning, your site may be in violation of Google's back button hijacking policy. Says right here, back button hijacking interferes with the user's browser navigation, preventing them from using their back button to immediately get back to the page they came from.
This spam policy has gone unchecked for far too long. Google should have addressed this years ago. Enforcement of this policy is scheduled to begin on June 15th, 2026.
If you have done this practice and you don't fix it by June 15th, 2026, Google will take away your search traffic and save years learning how to do SEO.
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