Have you ever been trapped by a web page, unable to use the back button to get back to the site you were previously browsing, powerless to do anything but sigh and sacrifice the whole browser tab?

Google is dropping the back button trigger for AdSense vignette ads on June 15, 2026 due to the new Google search penalty for back button hijacking. Google wrote, “Starting June 15, 2026, the browser ...

Have you ever tried to click “back” on a website, but instead of returning to the previous page you ended up on a wall of ads? This can happen when websites or advertising networks use JavaScript to ...

On June 15, Google will implement a new spam policy that will allow it to punish sites that interfere with your browser's back button. So-called “back button hijacking" is any behavior that interferes ...

Google AdSense (and Ad Manager) will drop the browser back button trigger for vignette ads additional triggers due to the new Google search penalty for back button hijacking. Google AdSense will drop ...

You may not know the name for it, but you’ve probably experienced it: you click on a link to a webpage, hit the “back” button on your browser, but end up on a ...