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

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Post by classics2 »

ljcus10 wrote: post #50

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

Guccc -> Gucci.com Gucce -> Gucci.com Pradd -> Prada.com Praada -> Prada.com

Low value target words just seem to go directly to google searches though.

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

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Post by breatheoften »

Url editing on iphone safari is highly messed up experience ... the text selection and editing behavior is just broken since ios 12 or 11 -- whichever one introduced the new text selection model ...

My standard easy repro -- go to a long url and try to edit the second to last segment of the url path (something which i do for work frequently when folks send me links to projects under development).

Enjoy the frustration.

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

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Post by Karupan »

phs318u wrote: post #99

I've just tried this on both macOS and iOS. macOS 10.15.5 Safari 13.1.1 Tested 4 configurations: Search engine: DDG vs Google Wipr adblock extension on/off. In all four cases: Typed in realty.com and hit enter - got realty.com. Typed in sketch and hit enter - got search results for the word sketch. Tested exact same configurations (DDG/Google, Wipr on/off) on my phone. iOS 13.5.1 on iPhone XR Same results as above. I…

I see the same behaviour down under. I wonder if Siri has got anything to do with it? Mine is always disabled.

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

#105

Post by ljcus10 »

codezero wrote: post #70
cortesoft wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think somehow Apple is getting monetized by Safari suggestions and is stealing this traffic from sites like Realty.com and getting paid by Fortune 500 companies like Realtor.com

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

#106

Post by el_benhameen »

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 am so glad that someone else hates this as much as I do. I stick with Safari because I like the password manager and the power performance, but the search bar is just completely nonfunctional. God forbid I ever even _think_ of a word that contains the letters "sch", because Safari will then forever navigate to some website containing that word instead of Schwab.com, which I navigate to multiple times a day.

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

#109

Post by hirsin »

cglong wrote: post #107

I received my new American Express and, when trying to enter the URL on the sticker, Safari suggested a phishing site as the "top result". I tried reporting this to both Apple and AMEX but never received a response :(

Maybe worth semi weaponizing it? Make your own phishing page that gets into this list (easier said than done) and as soon as they click the sign in button (pre credential entry) splash a page explaining that Apple is busted?
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