Some Microsoft sites have been very guilty of this. They are the ones that stick in my head in recent memory.

lamasery 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC the Azure “portal” does this. Also likes to not record things as navigation events that really feel like they should be. Hitting back on that thing is like hitting the back button on Android, it’s the “I feel lucky” button. Anything could happen.

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PhageGenerator 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think that is because some "pages" are really full screen modals. So the back button does take you back to the previous page, but it looks like you went back two pages (closes modal + goes back). I don't spend too much time in the Azure portal but this behavior is rampant in the Entra admin center.

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TeMPOraL 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> full screen modals

Thanks. I never imagined this is a thing, it's an useful addition to my mental model of software components, to explain why back button on web behaves in weird ways for some apps.

But it sure does sound like a dumb pattern on the web.

	▲	notpushkin 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		While we’re making sure that modals are recorded in history so that you can close them with the back button on mobile (e.g. https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/shallow-routing), MSFT can’t be bothered. But when it comes to abusing the very same history API to grab the user’s attention for a bit longer...

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boomlinde 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Having used Azure I believe that this is the result of pure, distilled incompetence rather than malicious intent.

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542458 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are they? This seems about deceptive or malicious content (i.e., redirecting to ads) rather than “something in my history triggers a JS redirect”. I’ve definitely experienced the latter with MS, but never the former.

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surround 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems like Google's policy is unconcerned with the intent of the practice. If a website JS redirect ruins the user experience by breaking the back button, it will be demoted in search results. It doesn't matter whether or not the redirect was meant to be deceptive or malicious, websites shouldn't be ruining the user experience.

	▲	dataflow 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It seems like Google's policy is unconcerned with the intent of the practice. I'm reading the opposite: "If you're currently using any script or technique that inserts or replaces deceptive or manipulative pages into a user's browser history that [...]"
	▲	j16sdiz 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is Google. Most likely they will deploy an automatic scanner bot that "supposed to" handle all the edge cases. When it don't work, you will be blamed for not writing your js in the way the bot can understand.

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sixothree 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Epic store makes it impossible to navigate backwards from the checkout on mobile at least. Not sure if it's design or just poor design.

	▲	quantum_magpie 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think most checkouts do that, to prevent duplicate payments. Dunno about epic, but I often encounter that mitigated by a dedicated ‘go back to store’ button post-checkout

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SuperNinKenDo 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Happened to me yesterday through a link off here. I was already expecting it given the domain, but usually mashing back fast enough does the trick eventually. Not this time. Had to kill the tab.

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Tepix 12 hours ago | parent [-]

In most browsers you can hold the back button for a second and it will let you skip back more than one step.

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SuperNinKenDo 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Probably should have mentioned it, but I was on my phone browser where that option either doesn't exist or isn't surfaced well. A long press on the back button just does the same thing as tapping once, so I'm all out of ideas.

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AndrewDucker 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can right-click on the back button in Firefox to see a list of previous sites to go back to.

	▲	notpushkin 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it’s the same feature, just two different gestures. (And long tap works with Firefox on Android, btw.)

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Kab1r 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And some websites consume the entire history that a browser displays in that menu

	▲	SuperNinKenDo 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Has definitely happened to me. Especially if I try the "click back a couple times quickly" method first.