[nexle]

slightly off topic but it should be a crime for a website hijacking the back button

[pif]

It should be a crime for web browser letting the back button be hijacked in the first place!

[kazinator]

It shuld be a crime for web browsers to download and execute code as a matter of loading a page.

[arp242]

Nothing is "hijacked"; it just sets the hash to allow permalinks. It should probably actually load the state when pressing back (or replace the current entry instead of adding a new one). But that's just a bug and not malice, as some seem to assume.

[hoten]

It actually is augmenting the history so "hijack" is correct.

Weird that back isn't restoring the state. Just stays the same for me.