angular.js link behaviour - disable deep linking for specific URLs

Adding target="_self" works in Angular 1.0.1:

<a target="_self" href='/auth/facebook'>Sign in with Facebook</a>

This feature is documented (https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location - search for '_self')

If you're curious, look at the angular source (line 5365 @ v1.0.1). The click hijacking only happens if !elm.attr('target') is true.

An alternative to Fran6co's method is to disable the 'rewriteLinks' option in the $locationProvider:

$locationProvider.html5Mode({
    enabled: true,
    rewriteLinks: false
});

This will accomplish exactly the same thing as calling $rootElement.off('click'), but will not interfere with other javascript that handles click events on your app's root element.

See docs, and relevant source

This is the code for turning off deep linking all together. It disables the click event handler from the rootElement.

angular.module('myApp', [])
   .run(['$location', '$rootElement', function ($location, $rootElement) {
      $rootElement.off('click');
}]);