That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.
because every website got bought out by a major corporation which publicly executes its employees, every hour, on the hour, if their profit line stops going up
The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.
It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.
If you’re using Graphene sure, but as far as I’m aware you can’t change webview on stock Android (doesn’t even show Geckoview in the options for WebView in the developer settings
I guess it depends on whether the app embeds the default browser or is hardcoded to use webview. I don’t know many apps that will trigger a load of random sites that do the latter, though.
That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.
Web developers have no say on this, when their bosses demand for more pop ups and bigger logos that stay in your face for longer.
I really hate how hostile the web has gotten in the past 10 years.
because every website got bought out by a major corporation which publicly executes its employees, every hour, on the hour, if their profit line stops going up
this is why ublock origin is a must have when browsing the internet these days
The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.
It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.
I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
If you’re using webview on Android it’s because it uses Chrome still
Not if you have your default browser set to Firefox
If you’re using Graphene sure, but as far as I’m aware you can’t change webview on stock Android (doesn’t even show Geckoview in the options for WebView in the developer settings
I guess it depends on whether the app embeds the default browser or is hardcoded to use webview. I don’t know many apps that will trigger a load of random sites that do the latter, though.
Here’s an archived version without the hijacking:
https://archive.is/TQCOJ
I don’t have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.