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

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Post by baskire »

om2 wrote: post #211
xsmasher wrote: post #82

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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.

Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavior myself. Any other examples of bogus/u…

Happy to as well. Able to reproduce on my iPhone 8. Type in “sketch” to safari. Hit enter. End up at sketchers.com

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Post by egwor »

chadlavi wrote: post #45
impendia wrote: post #35

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> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.

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 wonder if this is somehow region specific. In the UK, this goes to Sketch London (a place for food)

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Post by heyoo »

om2 wrote: post #310
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…

Posting reply here for more visibility. Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavi…

I have another one. "b.dk" turns into "eb.dk".

Two different Danish newspapers. Can't be true I can only use one of them :)

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Post by EGreg »

sudosysgen wrote: post #314
lern_too_spel wrote: post #266

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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.

This is true. The privacy threat model of an iPhone is absolute trust in Apple that has more control over your device than you do. For me, it doesn't compute.

It computes for me. It's my Trusted Computing Base, in fact. Would rather have to trust one company than several, as with Android. Can we do better somehow?

These 4-5 years may be the last era where we could trust our hardware, until governments all demand backdoors in the OS.

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Post by mrep »

mulmen wrote: post #275
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #227

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It doesn’t sound like you’ve tried Google Pixel products for Android phone + tablet. They’re expensive, but they are the best. I use both Android and iOS devices regularly everyday. I wouldn’t waste my time on anything but Google products for Android. It’s also the only fair comparison of Android to iOS: when using Pixel, the OS & hardware are dictated by Google just like Apple does with the OS & hardware for its pho…

I have been an Apple user for almost my entire adult life. Most of my friends and family are on iPhones. I have a personal and a work Macbook. I have a lot of Apple momentum in my life. Is there something so good about the Pixel ecosystem I should consider a switch?

From my experience, Pixels are great mainly because they are just as fluid as iphones and aren't bloated with crap that basically every android hardware vendor puts on. I tried out a htc one and a samsung galaxy s4 and went straight back to iphones as the software was just so laggy and bloated. My pixel 2 feels just as fluid as the iphones I have had though.

Iphones and pixels are both great and far above the other phones I have had so I don't think you can go wrong with either. Main benefit I have with android currently is that I can sideload a wifi hotspot app without paying a stupid subscription fee and google services like assistant, photos, and maps are much better in my opinion.

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Post by nbevans »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #254
easygenes wrote: post #234

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I’ve used a maxed out ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a maxed out MacBook Pro side by side. At a glance, very comparable specs. The MacBook Pro was a nicer experience. Not loyalty, it’s just better. The complaints are typically more of a, “You’ve gotten so many things right and better than everyone else, why is this rough edge still a problem!?”

Meanwhile my maxed out MBP 16 suffers from consistent kernel panics and reboots any time I plug into a thunderbolt dock. This is my first Mac after being in Windows land for a long time and getting fed up with recurring driver/firmware issues with my Dell XPS15 (fantastic hardware, terrible software/firmware integration though). There are definitely things that are nicer on OSX, but there are also a lot of warts that…

I totally agree about "Finder" - a better name might have been "Loser" - since it's only good at making you lose things.

I switched from Windows to Mac about 6 years ago - because I needed an all-in-one system that could compile iOS, Android and UWP apps. However even 6 years later I still have problems with Finder - big problems - it just doesn't behave at all how I expect. I often find myself using Windows Explorer (in my Parallels VM) to navigate the file system because it is just so much easier and predictable.

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

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Post by jdelStrother »

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?

Yep, I get this constantly in both Catalina & Mojave across two different Macs. Drives me crazy.

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Post by platypushexley »

hutattedonmyarm wrote: post #328
om2 wrote: post #317

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Google Meet works fine, as does Jitsi Meet. We're working with popular WebRTC providers one at a time. Unfortunately, the state of WebRTC interop is pretty bad across the board, so providers use website lockouts and qualify one browser at a time. Sorry about those three bugs. They do sound like bugs and will be looked into.

Huh, I never got anything that does audio/video calling to work on Safari. Always only provides a test video and audio. Permissions are all granted

Isn't that the "Use mock capture devices" function in the Develop > WebRTC menu?

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Post by ajzinsbwbs »

breatheoften wrote: post #316
ajzinsbwbs wrote: post #200

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Nice, thanks! Now that you remind me I’m sure I’ve seen that move before, but forgot about it and have been frustrated when editing urls every day since. I think this is the worst thing about using an iPhone for me and probably a lot of other users. Here is the full incantation to get it to work: 1. Touch the address bar and the keyboard will appear. 2. Long press on the spacebar (other parts of the keyboard won’t do…

This is better than what I've been doing ... But I find the experience of the cursor navigation by long-press on keyboard quite odd still ... if you stay in the mode for awhile -- and try sliding back and forth its quite an odd experience as it feels like the algorithm behind the cursor motion and its relationship to scrolling becomes less clear over time rather than more understood ... Maybe there is something wrong…

It seems that if the cursor won’t go right as far as you want, it helps to move your finger all the way left for a while, then try moving it right again (and vice versa). But that doesn’t always work so it doesn’t fully describe the mechanic. Performing this basic function feels like learning a fighting game. You need to charge up you cursor-moving mana.
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