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It seems to me that there are some sites that somehow program their pages to make it harder to use the back button to get away from their page. I have noticed it on my desktop and my laptop. Has anyone else noticed this? Some of them require me to go to favorites to leave the site.
It seems to me that there are some sites that somehow program their pages to make it harder to use the back button to get away from their page.
It's an auto-redirect. You go to site "A", which is programmed to automatically re-direct to site "B." When you click "back" on "B" you go to "A" which takes you right back to "B" again.
It seems to me that there are some sites that somehow program their pages to make it harder to use the back button to get away from their page.
They could do it on purpose but it could be done by accident too. The redirect that traps you is a meta tag in the header of the document. There is legitimate reasons for using it such as if you want to refresh a page at short intervals for content that changes rapidly. This is also used by people that want to take the easy route for redirection but many of them don't realize the consequences of trapping people on their page. When you hit the buck button you're just going back to the redirect page which is an endless loop unless you take some of the advice above.
Redirects are common but are usually done server side, those are not cached by the browser so you don't get trapped.
I used the right click on the back button and when it is taking multiple clicks to go back I am seeing multiple lines of "Googleads.g.doublclick.net" between current page and the one that I linked from.
Anyone know what this is and how to eliminate it?
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