Alright, while we’re talking about iOS autocomplete - I have a question. I noticed that sometimes when I’m typing an out-of-dictionary word, sometimes the keyboard will actually type the key next to the key I tapped that would type a real word. I imagine they’ve put a lot of effort into making the touch keyboard accurate, so is this a feature to that end or, more likely, is it a Baader-Meinhof thing, that I only notice when it happens?
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#62Want 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 w…
Yup was able to replicate that with
setInterval(() => document.title = `${Math.random()}`, 1000)Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#63Heads up: this seems to be a mobile Safari bug only; I can’t reproduce it on macOS.
I was just able to replicate it in Safari 13.1.1 on Catalina
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#64Probably because he has Realtor.com in his history. I didn't, so Realty.com worked for me.
I didn't have either... if i typed "realty.com", safari tried to autocomplete with a second 'm' in com (realty.comm), and then took me to realtor.com when i hit "go" (even though the 'first suggestion' said 'realty.com'
If I hit space after 'realty.com', it would try a google search... but if i hit space and then delete the space, it would send me to realty.com
Super confusing... this is on iOS 13.3.1
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#65There’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…
How do you 'visit the realty.com' site directly if it won't let you type the exact url and go to it?
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.
I'm a bit confused... I just typed "sketch" in Safari on my phone. The first suggested result was indeed skechers.com. But then I hit enter (so the total keystrokes were "s k e t c h return") and it did a search in my default search engine for "sketch". Which is what I expected. so what am I doing that you're not?
Are you using private browsing? Safari also did a search in my default search engine for me (but sketch.com was the top result on DDG). But when I turn off private browsing and type sketch it immediately sends me to skechers.com despite the fact that I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of their shoes and my purchase/browsing history reflects that.
Odd that private browsing would impact the autocomplete behavior in that way...
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#67I would assume the store devices (Best Buy) are locked to a small set of domains for obvious reasons. Further it seems that it's adding an extra m on the end on all but the first. EDIT: LOL, -10 on this post. This place is such a swamp of imbeciles. Again, this is 100% a DNS issue, and note that the majority do not have this. Verizon or some other specific provider is blocking what they see, incorrectly, as typosquat…
I would assume you're being downvoted for making an incorrect assumption.
Downvotes on HN have little correlation with correctness. Idiocy reigns supreme here just like every other site.
I will restate the assumption that Best Buy's network is filtered. Of course it is. It would be absolutely idiotic to assume otherwise. Further many DNS services have typosquatting protection where if they see an uncommon domain mirroring a "legitimate" (e.g. more common) one it blocks it or forwards you.
Is this why this demo does this? Who knows. A remarkable number of people seem to not have this problem. My iPad - nope. My iPhone - nope. So what now? Clearly it is not systemic, however much a small assortment of angry trolls demand it be.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.
I'm a bit confused... I just typed "sketch" in Safari on my phone. The first suggested result was indeed skechers.com. But then I hit enter (so the total keystrokes were "s k e t c h return") and it did a search in my default search engine for "sketch". Which is what I expected. so what am I doing that you're not?
iPhone 10 on 13.5.1...
I opened a new tab, typed in “sketch” saw Skechers.com below it, but just hit enter on the keyboard... went to Skechers.com.
I’ve never purchased shoes from Skechers.com and have only bought shoes online once before. (A pair of Tevas from amazon in 2019).
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#69Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#70There’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…
How do you 'visit the realty.com' site directly if it won't let you type the exact url and go to it?
That’s the bug. I’m not saying it’s not broken, it totally is. I’m explaining why it’s doing what it does from the UX available, in an attempt to differentiate between bad UX/design and some malicious thing done by Apple to a specific website.