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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by SigmundA »

Want another fun Safari auto complete bug?

Have a tab open that is changing its title on an interval.

Try to type something in any tabs address bar and use the arrow or a mouse to try and pick a result, the focus will constant jump and reset to the beginning every time the title changes on any tab, making it nearly impossible to pick a result if its changing fast enough.

The auto complete list seems to be populated with web page titles in real time and the list is being modified causing the results to be rerendered.

I found this after trying to use a Super Micro IPMI that updates the title with the current FPS on every frame, had it in a background tab and couldn't get to a search result, oh the frustration and time that cost me to actually track down.

Reported it to Apple of course nothing.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by samirelanduk »

ljcus10 wrote: post #50

Does anybody believe Apple is making money off this? Redirecting websites to competitors.

Probably not tbh - the cost/benefit of getting such small amounts of money versus enormous reputational damage is not remotely worth it.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by trav4225 »

This is pretty typical of most software these days: user-hostile and painfully dumbed down. Browsers especially seem to be able to get away with this because there are practically no non-annoying alternatives that are sufficiently secure and compatible.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by mchan889 »

ssss11 wrote: post #44
saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

Thats rediculous, and theres plenty of other equally undermining things technology does these days. When did technologists get so arrogant to think they should implement these things? I dont want my computer to think or make decisions for me, just get better at doing what I say.

I see similar things across the board. Chrome has terrible autocomplete also. The suggestions have to be physically back-spaced to avoid them being autocompleted when you press enter.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by ghostpepper »

saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

I have my Safari on Mojave set to use duckduckgo and typing Cmd + L, then typing sketch, then pressing return - takes me to a DDG search for sketch.

I wonder if there's some other setting I've changed that causes this difference in behaviour though.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by andybak »

llacb47 wrote: post #26
donohoe wrote: post #15

Hard to read on Mobile page. Here is non-mobile link: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157161487396...

Yep, URL should be changed

Not so fast. The altered link requires a login to Facebook. The original actually shows partial content.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by marcinzm »

codezero wrote: post #38

There’s a pretty simple explanation, and I think the behavior is almost certainly a bug or a UX edge case they overlooked. The entry in safari is acting only as a search box it seems, and Go takes you to the first result that is finds - which is the first result on Google, likely a paid ad, or just coincidentally a higher ranking. If you visit the realty.com site directly (Not suggesting this is a workaround, see thr…

>If you visit the realty.com site directly

How? He literally types "realty.com" (ie: the full domain) in the bar and it goes to "realtor.com."

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by ljcus10 »

samirelanduk wrote: post #53
ljcus10 wrote: post #50

Does anybody believe Apple is making money off this? Redirecting websites to competitors.

Probably not tbh - the cost/benefit of getting such small amounts of money versus enormous reputational damage is not remotely worth it.

My question is can they bid on it behind the scenes like a keyword. Siri suggestions must have some type of revenue.
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