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It's a bug with JSBin and/or the browser. https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin/issues/2464

Yeah, I'm really getting tired of this "You just changed pages and didn't know it" pattern I'm seeing more and more. I'm not sure why people want to have this single page app at all costs, but if you want the single page app, than a single click of "back" should work.

I think there is value in doing single page apps but mostly for web applications not really for just a website. Still I completely agree that breaking the back button needs to be avoided.

I think a more useful distinction is - mess with back-button history if and only if the user perceives a page transition regardless of if the location bar changed it there was a page load.

Waow that sucks, they don't even update the URL with anchor links!

Not really justifying history modification. But, if don't know, you can long click back button and press some random page in history stack to go to.