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I think/hope Chromium's recent announcement about "Expanding user protections on the web", addresses the redirect issue: > When the user interacts with content

I think/hope Chromium's recent announcement about "Expanding user protections on the web", addresses the redirect issue: > When the user interacts with content, things can also go wrong. One example that causes user frustration is when clicking a link opens the desired destination in a new tab, while the main window navigates to a different, unwanted page. Starting in Chrome 65 we'll also detect this behavior, trigger an infobar, and prevent the main tab from being redirected. This allows the user to continue directly to their intended destination, while also preserving the context of the page they came from. https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections-on-web.html https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections...

hdhzy 9y ago
Excellent! Stealth redirects and vibrating ads are what drove me to Firefox for Android with uBlock. Note that developers could protect their sites for some time with noopener: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
- ravenstine 9y ago
  Vibrating ads as in they move around or they cause your phone to vibrate? Never seen that, but either way that makes me all the more glad to have ad blocking installed at the root level. The level of annoyance the ad industry goes to is astounding.
  - hdhzy 9y ago
    They cause my phone to vibrate "thanks to" the Vibration API [0]. A critical component of the Web Platform ecosystem apparently. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...
    - r00fus 9y ago
      In time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
    - deftturtle 9y ago
      Seems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.
JoeyPardella 9y ago
yay! fucking retailmenot does this big time!

hdhzy 9y ago

Excellent! Stealth redirects and vibrating ads are what drove me to Firefox for Android with uBlock. Note that developers could protect their sites for some time with noopener: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/

ravenstine 9y ago
Vibrating ads as in they move around or they cause your phone to vibrate? Never seen that, but either way that makes me all the more glad to have ad blocking installed at the root level. The level of annoyance the ad industry goes to is astounding.
- hdhzy 9y ago
  They cause my phone to vibrate "thanks to" the Vibration API [0]. A critical component of the Web Platform ecosystem apparently. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...
  - r00fus 9y ago
    In time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
  - deftturtle 9y ago
    Seems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.

JoeyPardella 9y ago

yay! fucking retailmenot does this big time!