{"id":28237,"date":"2026-09-08T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/baidu-bilgi-bankasi\/fenghuo-hijacking-and-back-button-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:55:31","slug":"fenghuo-hijacking-and-back-button-abuse","status":"publish","type":"ar_bkb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/baidu-bilgi-bankasi\/fenghuo-hijacking-and-back-button-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenghuo: hijacking and back-button abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fenghuo (\u70fd\u706b) targets hijacking of the user&#8217;s journey \u2014 specifically, interference with the <strong>back button<\/strong> and unexpected redirection on mobile.<\/p>\n<h2>What it covers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disabling or trapping the back button<\/strong>, so a user who presses back does not return to the search results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redirecting the user<\/strong> to a destination they did not choose, on arrival from search or on interaction with the page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Privacy-related hijacking<\/strong> \u2014 the algorithm has been extended over successive versions to cover the collection and misuse of user data during these interruptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why the back button is the specific target<\/h2>\n<p>On mobile, back is how a searcher leaves a page that did not answer their question and tries the next result. A page that captures it holds the visitor against their intent, and it corrupts the behavioural signal Baidu reads from that journey. It is simultaneously a user-experience offence and a manipulation of measurement, which is why it warrants a named algorithm.<\/p>\n<h2>The version most sites are caught by<\/h2>\n<p>Not deliberate trapping \u2014 <strong>scripts<\/strong>. History-manipulating interstitials, app-download prompts that push a state onto the history stack, consent overlays and ad frameworks that intercept navigation. The site owner never experiences it: they arrive by typing the address, on desktop, with a session already established.<\/p>\n<h2>How to check<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the site on a phone, arriving from a Baidu result, with no cookies.<\/li>\n<li>Press back. You should land on the results page, once, immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat after interacting with the page \u2014 opening a menu, closing an overlay, scrolling past an ad \u2014 since history entries are usually pushed by those interactions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>The remedy<\/h2>\n<p>Audit every third-party script with the ability to navigate or manipulate history: advertising frameworks, app-install prompts, chat widgets, consent tools. Remove what interferes. There is no configuration that makes a captured back button acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fenghuo (\u70fd\u706b) targets hijacking of the user&#8217;s journey \u2014 specifically, interference with the back button and unexpected redirection on mobile. What it covers Disabling or trapping the back button, so a user who presses back does not return to the search results. Redirecting the user to a destination they did not choose, on arrival from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":25,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_bkb_kategori":[747],"ar_bkb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28237","ar_bkb","type-ar_bkb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_bkb_kategori-algorithms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb\/28237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_bkb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb\/28237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29195,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb\/28237\/revisions\/29195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_bkb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb_kategori?post=28237"},{"taxonomy":"ar_bkb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_bkb_etiket?post=28237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}