back button
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Back button hijacking is when a website interferes with a browser so the back button no longer takes users to the previous page, instead often keeping them on the site or presenting unsolicited ads.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Samsung Pay is also hardcoded as a shortcut when you long-press the back button — and there doesn’t seem to be a way to reprogram it to launch Google Wallet instead.
From The Verge ● Aug. 18, 2022
Label the note and hit the back button.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
The way that I listen when I’m truly enthralled by a particular piece of music certainly feels like a crush—picking up the tone arm, hitting the back button, refreshing the browser, over and over.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 26, 2018
The little boy had been twisting himself despairingly, and now said in a small voice, "Mother, I've tried and I've tried and I can't do that back button."
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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