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At least on iOS Safari there's this bug (feels like it's always been there, maybe content blocker related?) where sometimes a search simply gets eaten. The browser somehow thinks you went from nowhere straight to the page you're on, even though you went past a Google results page.

I assume it's somehow redirect-related and that's why these sites tend to trigger it.

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I’m thinking of two situations:

- you tapped the “Siri suggestion” result which completely skips the SERP. I hate that “back” doesn’t bring you back to what I typed in the search/URL bar

- I regularly visit The Verge, open a story and then the back button doesn’t take me to the homepage but to the page before it. I blame their crappy JavaScript but maybe we’re experiencing the same thing.

Nope. It's as if that happens, though going past a regular Google search results page, which is dropped (hence along with the search itself) from history.

Nope what? I described that same thing on The Verge.

Confirming this happens to me too. I feel like I first saw it on iOS 10 or so.

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