Wow. I just clicked an article from a Google results page. I read the article, then clicked Back. The website somehow hijacked Safari's Back button, taking me to the site's home page instead of back to the Google results.

I'm going to log this as a bug with Apple, as sites obviously shouldn't be able to reprogram your browser history!

Edit: The unwanted page said something like "before you go, take a look at these articles" so it was definitely malicious behaviour by the site, exploiting a browser bug. Naming and shaming, it was the Otago Daily Times. Interestingly it doesn't happen every time, even if I follow the same 'path' to get there.

That's really common on all sorts of sites.

As you read the article you probably clicked a show more link, that then loads the rest and is an interaction that allows them to replace the previous link of the top part of the article with their replacement stuff.

I dont bother going back, just close the tab so never really bothers me.

Behodar:

Wow. I just clicked an article from a Google results page. I read the article, then clicked Back. The website somehow hijacked Safari's Back button, taking me to the site's home page instead of back to the Google results.

I'm going to log this as a bug with Apple, as sites obviously shouldn't be able to reprogram your browser history!

Edit: The unwanted page said something like "before you go, take a look at these articles" so it was definitely malicious behaviour by the site, exploiting a browser bug. Naming and shaming, it was the Otago Daily Times. Interestingly it doesn't happen every time, even if I follow the same 'path' to get there.

Related annoyances:

Some of the (old?) Microsoft help pages had redirects on them all where clicking back would just send you to the redirect page, sending you again to the page you'd just clicked back on.  (You need to right click back and select two pages back)

Googling something on a mobile device (this applies to both Android (that I've seen) and iPhones) and the url in the address is simply what you've googled for instead of the url to copy and paste.

Frequently when you do the above and tap back it doesn't take you back to the google search page and instead the list of search results get lost.  Can't seem to replicate this right now so not sure why this is yet!

MadEngineer:

 

Googling something on a mobile device (this applies to both Android (that I've seen) and iPhones) and the url in the address is simply what you've googled for instead of the url to copy and paste.

On MacOS you can still copy that non-URL and it'll paste as a URL to the results page. I think it works on iOS too, but I don't have my phone handy.

Just tried it on my iPhone - no go.  

Similar to my moan about the Post Office moving into Paperplus and pretending its some kind of positive a while back - local Warehouse Stationary is closing / moving in with the local Warehouse, purely (so they say) for our benefit so we can shop under one roof, and its not in anyway connected with saving them money. Be interesting how it won't affect stock / display items as well.

rb99:

 

Similar to my moan about the Post Office moving into Paperplus and pretending its some kind of positive a while back - local Warehouse Stationary is closing / moving in with the local Warehouse, purely (so they say) for our benefit so we can shop under one roof, and its not in anyway connected with saving them money. Be interesting how it won't affect stock / display items as well. 

I can assure you a Post Office in a Paperplus shop is definitely a positive compared to a Post Office in a Mobil service station...

rb99:

 

Similar to my moan about the Post Office moving into Paperplus and pretending its some kind of positive a while back - local Warehouse Stationary is closing / moving in with the local Warehouse, purely (so they say) for our benefit so we can shop under one roof, and its not in anyway connected with saving them money. Be interesting how it won't affect stock / display items as well.

 

Oh joy. The Warehouse is too small as it is...

allan:

 

rb99:

 

Similar to my moan about the Post Office moving into Paperplus and pretending its some kind of positive a while back - local Warehouse Stationary is closing / moving in with the local Warehouse, purely (so they say) for our benefit so we can shop under one roof, and its not in anyway connected with saving them money. Be interesting how it won't affect stock / display items as well. 

 

I can assure you a Post Office in a Paperplus shop is definitely a positive compared to a Post Office in a Mobil service station...

 

Wouldn't be so bad but they kept the original building for Kiwibank, just to show us who they value more.

Behodar:

 

rb99:

 

Similar to my moan about the Post Office moving into Paperplus and pretending its some kind of positive a while back - local Warehouse Stationary is closing / moving in with the local Warehouse, purely (so they say) for our benefit so we can shop under one roof, and its not in anyway connected with saving them money. Be interesting how it won't affect stock / display items as well.

 

 

Oh joy. The Warehouse is too small as it is...

 

True, but I hardly go there anyway anymore since they stopped doing blurays (another plus...)

rb99:

 

Wouldn't be so bad but they kept the original building for Kiwibank, just to show us who they value more.

 

The post office my PO Box is at moved out and the post moved into a far away paper plus from the lobby, so can only get parcels at stupid oclock in the morning when the guy is at the door in the box lobby. They just closed the kiwibank. Worst was when they shared a counter and you would be queued behind someone having to have the staff explain to them why they have no money and listing all the places they have spent their money at to them because they're not smart enough to understand how to look online for it.

Getting a bit esoteric here, but on a Risc OS computer Alt-Break terminates a crashed app, while Ctrl-Break reboots the whole computer with no further prompt. The number of times I've hit the wrong one...

Youngest son has just ordered parts for a new gaming PC build. Parts from all over the place. 

The websites were all similar on the surface, but once you start to buy things, it gets excruciating. 

Some of the sites were clearly designed in the 90's and haven't been updated since. Some send you off-site to pay and don't redirect you. Others charge a surcharge for cards, but have no other option while yet others are surcharging for other things. 

It's enough to make you wonder how some of them sty in business. Especially in tech.