Thanks for pointing this out. That was not intentionally, probably a side effect from the navigation inside our search results within a dynamic page (using the back button to return to previous search queries). We will fix this.
This kind of thing is enough for me to never want to use a site. If it's a bug, high recommend you fix it, if it's not, highly recommend you reconsider your position.
It is so common in SPA that the long-press of the back button to see the list of recent sites should be muscle-memory by now for everyone.
Yes, it's an annoyance. Yes, sites should fix it. But not ever using a site because of it seems silly when it's literally a half-second longer click.
(Also, for this site I don't actually see the bug. So either they fixed it very rapidly, or GP was just referring to individual searchers being in the history, which is common for any search engine.)
> It is so common in SPA that the long-press of the back button to see the list of recent sites should be muscle-memory by now for everyone.
This is not a good excuse for laziness.
> But not ever using a site because of it seems silly when it's literally a half-second longer click.
I highly disagree. With this site at least it is actually possible to leave. Many websites I've come across with this issue, it is entirely impossible to leave without physically holding down the back button in the browser to get a list of history items, and then clicking a site from earlier.
> (Also, for this site I don't actually see the bug. So either they fixed it very rapidly, or GP was just referring to individual searchers being in the history, which is common for any search engine.)
I'm a bit curious about this 'back button hijacking', since the bug has now been fixed I'm afraid I'm not able to test. What was the unintended behaviour?
If you were entering deephn.org in your browser address bar, you couldn't use the browser back button to return to the previous page. That was a bug caused by the navigation code within our dynamic HTML page. It is fixed now.
