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

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Post by freehunter »

reaperducer wrote: post #23
searchableguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you have history of what you searched 2 years ago? I automatically clear my history every day. It sounds like a privacy issue when someone gets your phone.

Maybe he never does anything on his work machine that would cause privacy concerns?

At my work, clearing browser history is a red flag for audit. Their idea on the policy is anything you do on your work machine is work-related and the company has the right to see that history. If you want privacy, use your own device.

And while that’s not my policy, I’ve worked in security long enough to know... anything you do on your work computers is already being watched by the security team. Web proxies and log aggregation go a long way, especially with web proxies being able to decrypt SSL traffic on-the-fly.

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

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Post by chadlavi »

rubyfan wrote: post #123
xsmasher wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm the "s k e t c h return" -> skechers behavior. "s k e t c h SPACE return" got me the google search results.

doesn’t do it for me. one difference is my default search engine is duck duck go.

Aha! Same here, it looks like maybe DDG vs Google is the real difference here?

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

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Post by ehsankia »

crazygringo wrote: post #124
egypturnash wrote: post #116

I just typed realty.com into OSX Safari 13.1.1 and got the proper site. Then when I picked up my iPhone (ios 13.5) and started to do the same test it autocompleted 'real' into 'realty.com'. On the OSX side, the 'search' pane of settings has Safar Suggestions and Quick Website Search on, has preload top hit and show favorites off, and has DDG as the search. On IOS I have DDG as the search, and have Search Engine Sugge…

Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com! That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL…

I'm curious, did yours also have the extra m (realty.comm)? Both the 2nd and 3rd phone the video shows has the extra m, which makes me think it's an actual bug in the autocomplete, where it has completed to "realtor.com" (notice realtor has one more letter than realty), but you actually don't see it (except the last letter, the extra m at the end). So when you press enter, it goes to realtor.

If you do get the extra m, can you play around and see what happens if you delete the extra m at the end? Does it go to realtor.co? realty.com?

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

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Post by chadlavi »

xsmasher wrote: post #82
chadlavi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I can confirm the "s k e t c h return" -> skechers behavior. "s k e t c h SPACE return" got me the google search results.

What do you get if you switch your search engine to DDG?

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

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Post by nodamage »

I've run into a similar problem on the Mac version of Safari for a while now:

I'll paste in a full (http:// or https://) URL and hit Enter, but instead of loading the requested URL it just reloads the current page. I sometimes have to paste it a couple times before it will actually load the URL I want.

Anyone else encountered this or am I just going crazy?

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

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Post by vmception »

hirsin wrote: post #109
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?

no way make it a Tim Cook crypto giveaway with a continuous livestream of a video of him talking about technology, and a countdown

why should you have to only shell out money for some petty bs, if you randomly find a gold mining claim you go excavate the gold.

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

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Post by tbodt »

saagarjha wrote: post #19
searchableguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you have history of what you searched 2 years ago? I automatically clear my history every day. It sounds like a privacy issue when someone gets your phone.

Apple says that this information is end-to-end encrypted, so ideally the only person able to access it is myself. And I find it very handy: it's a lot easier to store a "pointer" to something in my head than the actual content. Whenever I need to look something up I saw before, I use a couple of keywords and I can kind it by searching there, so it's invaluable.

Source for it being encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202303 (but it says iOS 13 is required for that).

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

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Post by crazygringo »

ehsankia wrote: post #144
crazygringo wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com! That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL…

I'm curious, did yours also have the extra m (realty.comm)? Both the 2nd and 3rd phone the video shows has the extra m, which makes me think it's an actual bug in the autocomplete, where it has completed to "realtor.com" (notice realtor has one more letter than realty), but you actually don't see it (except the last letter, the extra m at the end). So when you press enter, it goes to realtor. If you do get the extra…

Nope, never saw any extra m. Sounds like something in your personal autocomplete "learned dictionary".

I don't know why, but 5 years ago the autocorrect on iOS never bothered me much, but over the past 1-2 years it's gotten much more "wrong". It's been driving me nuts.

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