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No, Target and Walmart are not removing Xbox products from their stores — as Xbox misinformation reaches new levels
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That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.
this is why ublock origin is a must have when browsing the internet these days
I've got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
If you're using webview on Android it's because it uses Chrome still
Not if you have your default browser set to Firefox
If you're using Graphene sure, but as far as I'm aware you can't change webview on stock Android (doesn't even show Geckoview in the options for WebView in the developer settings
I guess it depends on whether the app embeds the default browser or is hardcoded to use webview. I don't know many apps that will trigger a load of random sites that do the latter, though.
At least on Android you can configure whether or not apps use their inbuilt webview or just redirect to the proper browser. That feature probably doesn't exist on iOS because Apple have opinions about customizability, and it's that you shouldn't have any.
I'm on Android. You've motivated me to dig up that setting and change it. I had assumed that each application handled that individually.
Mm. Looks like Android also has that locked down these days. We need a viable Linux phone.
What skin you want because it may be something that you can change if you are on a different skin but I've definitely been able to change it so it's a browser of my choice.
The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.
It's gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.
I really hate how hostile the web has gotten in the past 10 years.
Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You'd land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.
Unless we're talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn't have too many problems like this.
because every website got bought out by a major corporation which publicly executes its employees, every hour, on the hour, if their profit line stops going up
Here's an archived version without the hijacking:
https://archive.is/TQCOJ
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just "thanks for your feedback, we're experimenting with ways to make money"
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.
I don't have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
All I get is the cookie pop-up. But jokes on them because I'm on the duck duck go browser so they don't get any tracking info.
Web developers have no say on this, when their bosses demand for more pop ups and bigger logos that stay in your face for longer.