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Why do all Meta websites intentionally break the back button? It makes me irrationally angry every time I visit facebook or instagram for how disrespectful it is, it's like it springs a trap where I'm not allowed to leave in the browser tab I arrived in.

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A random feature I didn't know for too long is long pressing the back button, which opens a menu containig the last few locations. Typically that helps with sits who hijack the back button. Works also on desktop.

[lxgr]

What I'd love is a crowdsourced database for known back button hijackers in e.g. Firefox: If too many people report a site as being broken that way, the back button API could be made opt-in for everybody in the site settings.

[HumblyTossed]

I find any site that does this to be user hostile and minimize my time spent there.

[BeetleB]

At least on Firefox, the back button continues to work on this site.

[bombcar]

Does Microsoft's discussion forums work too? Because I wonder if Firefox has code to ignore backbitten pages.

[layer8]

> It makes me irrationally angry

That’s pretty much the purpose of Facebook? ;)

[pvg]

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html