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by squarepirate 3874 days ago
I google that and this was my third result.

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/internetsafety/6/print

Topic 6 talks about it. So simple.

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I suspect the OP is asking why bank websites do not gracefully handle the back button and prevent the errors mentioned on that page.
Except that you don't get charged twice on Amazon or basically any web merchant when using the back button.
You won't get charged twice on any well-written site, but I'm still careful with the back button around any transaction.

It's not really an issue at either of my banks, because a transaction is a lot more than merely submitting a form, and requires authorization with a single-use code. But webshops tend to have far more linear transactions, and I don't always fully trust them to use the back button the way I think it should work.