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

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Post by saagarjha »

alasdair_ wrote: post #178
tbodt wrote: post #148

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

>Source for it being encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202303 (but it says iOS 13 is required for that). Does it restore (by default) if you buy a new iPhone? If yes, then Apple stores a copy of your key to go along with the encrypted data. If it is restorable, it's technically encrypted, but in practice Apple (and whomever Apple decrees) have access to it anyway.

A more specific test would be to check if it restores once you remove all other iOS devices that could possibly share a key with you to decrypt it.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

freehunter wrote: post #141
reaperducer wrote: post #23

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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…

> 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.

These lines are often blurred (practically–not legally) with BYOD and people doing things like using their personal devices on company Wi-Fi networks.

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

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Post by sb8244 »

djrogers wrote: post #253
cromka wrote: post #214

What really drives me mad is that there is no public bugreporting for any Apple soft, except for the betas obviously. Only then we'd be able to have an idea of the sheer extent of bugginess of their products, and how the heavily advertised features never work. I hope someone with energy and time actually creates and maintains an open, alternative bugzilla for that purpose specifically.

> What really drives me mad is that there is no public bugreporting for any Apple soft, except for the betas obviously. Second google result for ‘report apple bug’ : https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I think that the intent of parent is to have the bugs be publicly visible, like https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=status:open

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

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Post by saagarjha »

djrogers wrote: post #253
cromka wrote: post #214

What really drives me mad is that there is no public bugreporting for any Apple soft, except for the betas obviously. Only then we'd be able to have an idea of the sheer extent of bugginess of their products, and how the heavily advertised features never work. I hope someone with energy and time actually creates and maintains an open, alternative bugzilla for that purpose specifically.

> What really drives me mad is that there is no public bugreporting for any Apple soft, except for the betas obviously. Second google result for ‘report apple bug’ : https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

That's even more of a black hole than Feedback Assistant.

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

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Post by philliphaydon »

easygenes wrote: post #258
philliphaydon wrote: post #248

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Did you use a Carbon or X1 Extreme? There is no “carbon X1 extreme” I’ve used both side by side too. Other than the keyboard being better on Lenovo and trackpad being better on MacBook. The rest is same same to me.

X1 Extreme, sorry for the confusion. Edited the original. The trackpad was a huge one for me. I really couldn’t bear it. I did like the ThinkPad keyboard though. The 135W charger was also a ThinkPad win. I would be tempted by a ThinkPad in the future if they could get anywhere near as good a trackpad as the MacBook. Oh! Also the MacBook speakers and mics are lightyears better. The ThinkPad speakers are an embarrassin…

Oh yes the speakers. I think laptop speakers 10 years ago were better than what we get today. Apple still has quality speakers.

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

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Post by lern_too_spel »

zamalek wrote: post #238
elliotec wrote: post #223

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iOS is still miles ahead of Android and those are the only real choices. Plus the privacy thing. Plus development on Apple products is better.

> Plus the privacy thing. I really have to hand it to Apple there. I think they must be big tech that really cares (I use Fastmail etc. for this reason, but they aren't the same scope). Their privacy story nearly converted me a year back, but the walled garden has always been my biggest hurdle for switching to Apple. I personally regard the walled garden as a greater violation of what I think consumer rights are. I'd…

In addition to reducing freedom, the walled garden reduces privacy. You cannot install an app on your phone, not even (especially!) one you develop yourself, without telling Apple. The privacy marketing that Apple does for iOS is the biggest scam in consumer tech.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

nodamage wrote: post #146

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?

I've seen this too, but never figured out why it's doing this. If the underlying bug is some sort of timing related thing, then it might be related?

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

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Post by lern_too_spel »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #202

Safari is the absolute worst web browser by far. Both mobile and desktop. This kind of egregious error is only the most obvious part. Try doing a WebRTC conference call in Safari. Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Jitsi Meet, etc, etc, etc. None of them support Safari. Do you know why? It's because Safari is absolutely riddled with bugs: [1][2][3]. It is incredible how bad Safari is. [1] https://bugs.webkit.…

I once tried to watch a video sped up in Safari, and the sound was awful. An acquaintance tried to report the bug to Apple years ago, and it went into a black hole. Compare to the public bug trackers for Firefox and Chromium, and it's easy to understand why Safari remains nearly useless.

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

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

zamalek wrote: post #219
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…

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

what makes you think the ones complaining have any loyalty to Apple?

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

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Post by jwitthuhn »

partdavid wrote: post #97
SubiculumCode wrote: post #46

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I keep Firefox up to date on my Windows box (version 77.0.1) and I still have the ability to have a dedicated search box. Are you on a pre-release channel?

You have the ability to have a dedicated search box, but your URL bar is also a search box, and you can't turn it off. I want to enter URLs in a box which doesn't try to autocomplete as a search, doesn't search my search engine, doesn't try to fill in missing TLDs, etc. I had something close before 75.0, which introduced the "revamped" address bar that is also swollen. I separated the search box not because I want a…

This is still possible in Firefox 77 if I am understanding correctly.

The magic entries in about:config are

keyword.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never search for something you type in the address bar.

browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never try to "fix" the url you type in by putting .com on the end of it.

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