Such bad behavior on the back button - it’s such a shabby trick, and makes me think less of any site that pulls that.

I always think about the developers who were asked to implement something like this

It's always a bug. Usually, some issue with an iframe navigating to another html page, which makes the back button go back in the iframe instead of the page itself. This usually happens because of an ad, which makes me wonder why people are still navigating without ad blockers.

Happens to me even with an ad blocker.

Sorry, what do you mean by this? Back button seems to work normally for me.

Yeah annoying. Need to find an extension to fix that.

Browsers need a "toggle scripts" button up with the back/reload buttons.

Back in the 90s, I could hit the Esc key and stop all of the animations, allowing my ADHD brain to regain the focus needed to read the actual article.

Well there is noscript but that breaks a ton of stuff