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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by happyopossum »

sneak wrote: post #110

Turning off Safari Suggestions is one of the first and most important privacy tweaks on a new iPhone. Otherwise every keystroke you type in the address bar gets sent to Apple in realtime.

> most important

Really? No - there is no privacy threat surface with suggestions, unless you assume that Apple and everyone who works there is lying about it?

ref: "any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier"

[0]https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions...

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by friendlyHornet »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #89

They really, really don't want you using old.reddit.com Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.

Cease your investigations into this conspiracy theory immediately. We must not anger the new reddit designers

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by alkonaut »

yamtaddle wrote: post #57
bartread wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to... 2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug without knowing which type of device it's running on, so at the very least they might need to check several different devices, and even then other factors can come into play that go beyond basic device configuration.…

> 1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to... People might. This one didn't even @ Apple. Jesus, HN (a sentiment the Tweet author has also expressed by now on the tweet thread, as they're apparently reading this and seeing y'all acting like this in public) > 2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug w…

> It's Safari Suggestions on any recent iOS.

... and what more? in US? On en-US language? Because it doesn't seem to be that universal.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by acdha »

superjan wrote: post #100
acdha wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt that since it’s their own code but I’d easily believe that it hits an API endpoint which just started malfunctioning. The description is vague but it appears to retrieve a bunch of different kinds of information from some Apple service. Clearly a massive test coverage miss if my speculation is right.

I think he is joking.

I wasn’t sure about that and it’s certainly not without precedent that different parts of the same company might do something like that.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by gardenhedge »

ironmagma wrote: post #99
tchalla wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These initialisms, abbreviations and acronyms are getting out of hand.

These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by ljm »

Regnore wrote: post #75
robbyking wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is a lot of the crashes come from old.reddit.com

Is old.reddit.com very unstable for everyone else in safari or just me? On my past 3 iphones through multiple iOS versions I can't browse for more than 10 minutes without eventually hanging/crashing safari. It seems to happen most frequently after browsing posts with images

New Reddit it like that. Page randomly resets no matter what you’re doing. Dumps you back at the top and asks if you want to install the app.

They are desperate about getting you to download their app.

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Post by andirk »

Veuxdo wrote: post #24
avanai wrote: post #15

“Best “ does it for me. 16.1.1 Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it.

Funny, with Google you typically want to add "-best" to your searches to cut down on SEO spam.

I often do the opposite: "best [search query, usually a product] in the world".

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by tlholaday »

ok_dad wrote: post #91
BudaDude wrote: post #76

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> Maybe a hacker who resides on my iPhone fixed the bug for me Wholesome hacking

If you "hacked" a system, I would assume the first thing you'd do is patch any of your own known exploits, and others, so you don't lose ownership to some other hacker, right?

If you ever consider a career change, the parasitology field could advance from your intuitions.
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