system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why we have to double, triple, quadruple+ click the back button to actually go back on some websites?

I have been annoyed by this for at least a decade.
gpt
They have a page that automatically redirects you to another page. So you hit back, you arrive at a page which tells your browser to go to the original page. There are some legitimate reasons for doing this sort of thing, but arguably they just want to keep you on the page or generate some superfluous traffic, which could make them ad money.