Using backbutton causes refresh on android

I'm using this plugin without using the entire ionic stack.
When pressing the back button before using this plugin I was able to register the `backbutton` event using the cordova device class and the functionality worked as expected.
After adding this plug-in this functionaloty was changed and I can't find anything in the documentation to understand how to change this behavior when not using ionic.
Code can be seen here:
https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/Site/blob/master/IsraelHiking.Web/sources/application/services/application-exit.service.ts