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

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Post by chungus_khan »

saagarjha wrote: post #261
alasdair_ wrote: post #178

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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). 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.

It's not much better if Apple controls the mechanism for key sharing anyway.

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

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Post by dervjd »

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…

Filed a report here: FB7796744 This has driven me absolutely nuts as well...occurs when trying to visit wbay.com (instead sends me to ebay.com)

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

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Post by NorwegianDude »

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.…

Could not agree more, at least for iOS safari. It's way worse that IE ever was.

Safari lacks features, it's inconsistent, it's full of bugs, and the worst part? There is nothing you can do about it, it's not like Apple allows other browsers access to the platform.

I can't even count the number of times where scrolling stops working, but then you refresh the page and it works again, even if it's the exact same HTML and CSS.

And then there was the issue hundreds of user complained about: the keyboard would not show up when pressing the url bar, on any page. Quitting and opening safari again usually fixed this.

For some reason iOS users seems to have no idea what's what. When the browser stops working, they usually contact me, like I would be able to do anything about it. Apple needs to take feedback from their users.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

andrewksl wrote: post #164
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…

Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results. There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.

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

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Post by Whitespace »

om2 wrote: post #361
PostPlummer wrote: post #319

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> but I can't reproduce either behavior myself Me neither. manOS Catalina, Version 10.15.5. Safari Version 13.1.1 (15609.2.9.1.2) EDIT: Still can't get used to Safari's URL completion behaviour. It is completely unnatural and hard to feel as useful, unlike chrome's which is very handy and behaves like I expect.

Any specific feedback on completion behaviors that feel wrong?

Visit a url with the same work in the title and the url, ie https://github.com/Whitespace/Glome

Close safari and reopen it.

Type in "Whitespace" then "Bookmarks and History" shows up. Highlight a result, then go to the end of the line and delete that work, thinking you'll be editing the url directly to get: https://github.com/Whitespace

It matches on the title and allows you to edit that, leaving you with the option to search on "Whitespace/glome: Glome! Powered by " which is extremely baffling.

My expectation is that it matches the url and allows me to edit it, which is something I do very often for github repos: type the name of the user, highlight a history result so https://github.com/ is filled out, then option delete the repo and type in the one I want to go to.

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

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Post by rand49an »

jolux wrote: post #277
zamalek wrote: post #259

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I understand this perspective. I understand why people think that Windows is a hot mess, I has earned that reputation and them some. I haven't had Windows do stupid shit in over two years. Updating it is a habit once in a while, possibly barely more frequently than it forces (unless I hear about a big vulnerability on HN). I'd probably be annoyed if I didn't understand how important updates were and kept postponing t…

Good god, I agree about privacy, but as somebody who does .NET dev for her day job, how did you get rid of the annoyances? Some of these are little stuff but, off the top of my head: I can't understand the different between these smart "locations" and folders in explorer (documents vs my documents, why everything is under desktop in some file pickers, why C:\ is so hard to get to these days) even after using windows…

Windows hasn't required confirmations for deletions in years. And the Documents vs My documents folder makes me think it's your organisations setup that is to blame for much of this.

Don't use classic start either. Just remove the pinned stuff from the start menu and it's like your using Windows 2000 again.

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

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Post by nsonha »

The whole idea of recommendation systems is based on the assumption that you're gonna keep doing the samething over. Its accuracy is depending on whether you are a person of habbits or constantly changing. While in some aspects having a pattern is good (work or routine life tasks), in many others it's an indication of something unhealthy or not optimal. You don't want to be that person that seems to have a limited vocab and just keep using the same phares. You also most likely dont want to keep buying the same stuff or reading just that one particular genre/author/news outlet. Autocomplete particularly never worked to me and I'm happy that I cant seem to be typecasted by a machine. As a software developer, I wonder what the people who made these engines think. Are they actually happy that their code makes people more predictable?

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

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Post by bluedino »

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…

Just the other day I typed in the name of a company I wanted to find a product number for “foobar inc”, and I end up getting sent to their YouTube channel by Google :(

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

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Post by lern_too_spel »

shuckles wrote: post #326
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #301

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Apple Safari (mobile and desktop) doesn't use the WebKit.org bug tracker. They do their own thing.

Video playback is a WebKit feature.

The platform audio libraries that Webkit uses on MacOS and iOS are not part of Webkit.

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

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Post by lupinglade »

PostPlummer wrote: post #319
om2 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> but I can't reproduce either behavior myself Me neither. manOS Catalina, Version 10.15.5. Safari Version 13.1.1 (15609.2.9.1.2) EDIT: Still can't get used to Safari's URL completion behaviour. It is completely unnatural and hard to feel as useful, unlike chrome's which is very handy and behaves like I expect.

A separate search and URL field would be nice, it’s just not the same thing. Issues with autocomplete and with copy and paste abound.
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