Brian DearSpeaking of enshittification, @pluralistic, how about this: the way if you make the mistake of clicking on a Google search result that takes you to Facebook, you're trapped! All of your browser tab's previous surfing history that led you to Google and then to the FB page, is lost, you can't click the Back button; FB has you like a venus fly trap. It is one of the most violative acts I've ever seen on the web. Just blatantly subverts the very essence of the web. It's an act of pure evil by FB.
Steve Bareman@brianstorms @pluralistic you could block Facebook in your local hosts file. Send it to 127.0.0.1 and no more Facebook ever.
Mark Crocker@stevebareman @brianstorms @pluralistic ooo, I like that. Facebook is one of the few nasty sites that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libredirect/ doesn't have an alternative for.
Patrick Foley@brianstorms @pluralistic agree, totally shitty … but next time you’re trapped, right click (or long press) on the back button. You can probably get out that way
James Holden@brianstorms @pluralistic This is why I generally ctrl click Google results to open them in new tabs.
@jamesholden @pluralistic Good idea! But a shame that users have to resort to these kinds of workarounds when the company like FB does something self-defeating and selfish. I think it's a sign of late-stage business thinking: as a company grows stale, especially a publicly-traded company, the pressure is tremendous to continue to grow grow grow at all costs. "At all costs" means "time to commence enshittification."
Max Lee 
@jamesholden Middle mouse button is your friend!
Michael Slattery@brianstorms @pluralistic Facebook isn't the only website that traps you like that. I've fallen into several over the years but can't remember who because they aren't important. You click a link to go to their site and the back button doesn't work. I'm curious how they do that.
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw@Slatteryz @brianstorms @pluralistic I suspect the first link is a redirect link leading you to the final second page. As soon as you click back, it redirects you again to the second page.
DrYak@doc Slightly different: modern JavaScript webapps can take over the back button so that clicking on it correctly navigate within the app's widget (e.g.: App opens some pop-up like modal, back should close it and go back to the main app screen, not the previous website).
Facebook abuses the feature to always bring you back to its main timeline, even when already there.
Circumvent by using the "history dropdown meny" of the back button.
Or Firefox' container tabs.
@dryak thanks, learned something new ☺️
mav 
@brianstorms @pluralistic interestingly, either Firefox does not do this or uBlock blocks this behavior. I kind of suspect this is a Firefox thing though because they tend to make decisions like this, like ignoring right button disabling
SC-Contact@brianstorms @pluralistic it’s not just fb that is guilty of this, Microsoft does the same with technet. It’s infuriating.
Shift click any links on search just so you don’t lose your place, and end up in an infinite loop.
❄️❄️❄️@brianstorms @pluralistic I thought that behavior was because of Firefox's Facebook container. Is that not the case, and it's something else?
Mark Armstrong@brianstorms @pluralistic usually when this happens I can (in FireFox anyway) hold down the browser back button to see the pages that I have navigated through to get to that page. I then then select the most recent entry that takes me back to where I want to be. This skips the pages that have autoforward on them.
WheelbugDang, I haven't seen this in action, need to test it