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It's because the accordion is made with CSS only and it uses the :target pseudo-class. The back button is not "hijacked" :)

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Yes, it is, because it's not doing what I expect it to do. It's neat, but it's still hijacking.

Why is it not doing what you expect it to do? When content on a page changes, an entry should be added to the history.

I don't think that everyone is still used to it.

Many pages have scrolling ticker-style feeds - hitting "back" doesn't rewind that.

I would argue that entries to the history should be added when user interaction was involved and when a significant amount of the content has changed.

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