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[-] saltesc@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No ad blockers or nothing. And yet you also have ads that don't exist for me and no mobile header. It's the same in Thunder or my browser.

Unusual. Could be regional, could also be your OS. Sites can display differently depending on whether it detects your OS/native browser as mob, desktop, etc. So while the CSS is obv scaling to mobile, it may be displaying a diff version of the site.

Or malware 😁 No really, it can make sites be like that (force to desktop) to load in content. First signs of malware is unusual behaviour in internet-related applications not behaving how they're supposed to because something's sneakily altering the behaviour and hoping you don't realise.

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I've been on sites that track how many articles I've read and wait to hit me with the pay wall after some amount

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, but our mate's phone here isn't even loading the mobile site. So either it's a dodgey half-assed phone with some random operating system or unknown browser, or something's telling it to behave like that. Forget the whole paywall part if you must. There's no mobile elements being loaded. The site's being told the device is not a mobile device or a normal OS. And I highly doubt that site's ignoring W3C standards, since it isn't run by a old guy named Gary still using Geocities.

Just sayin' this is a common malware indicator. The whole point of it is to convince that everything's normal, so at the moment I'd consider it C-grade success malware because apparently to everyone else this very abnornal behaviour seems normal.

But what do I know. Ain't my phone anyway. Forget I mentioned it out of the blue for no reason :) I'm sure it's fiiiiine. Especially if they're on an custom or cheap Android-based OS and don't know what they're doing (Note: Drenched sarcasm)

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Idk what you mean by mobile elements aren't being loaded. Does the title of the article not count? I can see it behind the paywall banner

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Top header with mobile menu. Usually set to only show for mainstream mobile browsers. Could only be WebKit. iOS only got full WebKit support in 17.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It’s iOS dog. It’s stock.

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

You might get a number of "free" articles before you start seeing it.

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