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Heck, this is my #1 complaint of almost anything on a mobile browser. It's easily the worst offender when it comes to mobile in general; I wish browser vendors
by Mahn 10y ago
Heck, this is my #1 complaint of almost anything on a mobile browser. It's easily the worst offender when it comes to mobile in general; I wish browser vendors put a bigger focus on fixing this, somehow.
- wruza 10y agoBrowser vendors against adclicks, mice against cheese, bees against honey, what you gonna do now?
- paublyrne 10y agoMice aren't really interested in cheese.
- haimez 10y agoPlease, describe how this "mouse" consumes anything other than "cheese" for sustenance.
- saghm 10y agoActually, I think he meant it literally: http://www.earthkind.com/blog/fact-or-fiction-do-mice-really-love-cheese-or-is-this-just-a-myth-cartoons-have-been-feeding-us http://www.earthkind.com/blog/fact-or-fiction-do-mice-really...
- lisivka 10y agoMice likes cheese, but only if cheese is good. Most of current cheeses are made from fresh milk, which is not fermented enough to be edible.
- DeadBabyOrgasm 10y agoExactly. They're masters of subtlety, manipulating our species to evolve in just the right way, learn just the right things. We don't experiment on them so much as they experiment on us. Masters of subtlety...
- theandrewbailey 10y agoGoogle is fixing it, but it's punishing them in search, not Chrome. http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/google-to-punish-sites-that-use-intrusive-pop-over-ads/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/google-to-punish-sit...
- eterm 10y agoWhich will lead to the same hack as paywalled news sites, the ads won't load when referred from google meanwhile the rest will suffer.
- marblar 10y agoSo users reaching a site through google have a better experience than users accessing it through some other method? This seems like a pretty good thing from Google's perspective...
- eterm 10y agoAbsolutely, and further extends their embrace over the web. I suspect google are probably wary about moves that push themselves much further right now, the last thing they want to do is look like a monopoly.
- DeadBabyOrgasm 10y agoSounds like a good reason to build a plugin to always sets the http referrer header to google.com on certain news sites.
- colejohnson66 10y agoIs there any good reason for having the "Referer:" tag at all?
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoGoogle also has tech to show these banners but only if you've visited the same site a few times already, and then not every time. (This link talks about web app installs first, then native app installs later) https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing... "The user has visited your site twice over two separate days during the course of two weeks."
- at-fates-hands 10y agoDidn't this start on the desktop and now because companies think it was successful on desktops, they need to extend it to mobile since they think everyone has 4G service? I remember when your mobile experience was supposed to be a stripped down faster version of your desktop version. Now, they're both insanely hard to navigate and use. So much for we dev progression, huh?
- planteen 10y agoI used to get the mobile versions of pages on the desktop. Not because I was on a slow connection, just because the text is the meat for most things on the Internet. Now there's less of a point in doing that.