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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
#152Earlier 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.
What do you get if you switch your search engine to DDG?
I use DDG and I see the same behavior:
sketch --> skechers.com
sketch --> search for sketch on DDG
So this is presumably not DDG specific behavior. Safari on latest Catalina macOS.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#153I'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?
You are not crazy. There is a bug in the last 2 minor releases of Safari where you can type in or paste a link and it'll just end up reloading the same page. You can do this several times. It drives me mad, quite honestly. But it is indeed a bug. No idea why. I doubt it's related to this suggestion feature.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#154I 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…
I just tested on my iPhone, never visited either, and got realtor.com instead.
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#155Url 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 frustratio…
Works fine for me. I just long press on the keyboard to get into cursor edit mode and swipe along until I get to where I want.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#156I 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…
> I almost wonder if this is happening to the owner of realty.com because they have spent a lot of time looking at realtor.com No - this is why the video demo does it not on his devices (where previous personal history would be relevant) but on "clean" phones in Apple Store.
Ah, i missed that detail!
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#157I 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…
I just tested on my iPhone, never visited either, and got realtor.com instead.
Same here.
I found that if I am in private browsing mode, this does not happen.
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#158This 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…
Turn off "Include search engine suggestions" in the search pane of the Safari preferences. You’ll still get autocomplete from your own history (requiring you to press backspace before return to get a web search), but at least it won’t arbitrarily send you to sites you have never visited before.
It only disables search engine suggestions that's half the problem solved.
Now, let's say I have a bookmark for "abcd.com" and I have visited "abcd.com" a million times. So the moment I am done typing "ab" in address bar I get abcd.com suggestion which is good.
Now one day I visit (or mistype and hit enter) "ab"ihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com. Yes, just once. Now, for days I get the suggestion "abihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com" when I type "ab" even though every time I type few more letters or delete and change it "abcd.com" before hitting enter. Or maybe for weeks because I just end up going to history and delete that abihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com so that it would never show up in suggestions.
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#159This 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…
Reading through yours and the other comments here...I just can't even understand...who came up with the idea of changing key word searches into autocompleting URLs? Personally, I still find the idea of a URL bar doubling as a search bar a bit disconcerting as it is. I expect specific behaviour from a URL bar. I type in an address and either it takes me to what I type or it can't find it. This behaviour everyone's des…
The point here is to be able to offer suggestion without leaking search intent / keywords to a search engine that happens to use it for ad profiling.
But the way Apple is doing it is an uphill battle because without much context, it's harder to offer an anonymized solution. I remain hopeful it's just a buggy implementation and that they don't give up because I really like the model from a privacy perspective.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#160The best feature of safari is "Remove from dock"