I really hate how hostile the web has gotten in the past 10 years.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
nucleative@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
blave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here’s an archived version without the hijacking:
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
mhague@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
echodot@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
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.
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
simple@piefed.social 1 day ago
this is why ublock origin is a must have when browsing the internet these days
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
Dhs92@piefed.social 1 day ago
If you’re using webview on Android it’s because it uses Chrome still
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not if you have your default browser set to Firefox
echodot@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
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.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
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.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.