Captivate, don't make the user captive. Duh.

But advertising incentives are why schmucks do this. To get more impressions.

That's on Google. So this might be an appropriate response to... what they created indirectly.

If I find a site doing this, I just don't go back.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05dd2yj3z3o

#Google #BackButtonHijacking

Back button hijacking to be penalised in Google crackdown

The tech giant said it will punish sites that block back button navigation from June.