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Can confirm on Chrome. There is something interesting though. I tested it after logging out of Facebook (wanted to see what would happen). Basically I wanted
by logicallee 8y ago
Can confirm on Chrome.
There is something interesting though. I tested it after logging out of Facebook (wanted to see what would happen). Basically I wanted to see if you needed to be logged into Facebook or not to use this redirect (would it work from the logged-out Facebook page?), but got something surprising.
I performed these steps (Chrome on Desktop, from Windows):
1. I was logged into Facebook in an incognito window. I decided to log out of it. I then removed my fast login button by clicking the X.
(Note: I didn't close that incognito window. This does mean any cookies could have been retained, I wasn't being so thorough)
2. After logging out I returned to the main Facebook.com page (to sign in) in the same window.
3. On the blank Facebook login screen , I then manually pasted https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/apple-avoids-amazons-beauty-contest-searches-secretly-for-new-campus-1527067800 https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/apple-avoids-amazons-beauty... into the URL bar in Chrome.
4. After I pressed Enter Facebook actually put up a page "Confirm leaving Facebook" with the URL. This was under the Facebook.com URL. And then I clicked the URL on that page. I got the full article.
This is what that window looked like (I reloaded it by clicking the back button in that window, while writing this comment):
https://imgur.com/a/X8bIGyX https://imgur.com/a/X8bIGyX
It doesn't do this when I put in just any other URL into the URL field.
So how did this happen technically? How did Facebook.com get the new URL I put in, and halt my navigating away manually, and instead ask if I really want to go there (but remove the "full" from where 'there' is)? I don't think Chrome gives Facebook access to URL's put into the URL bar by the user...so...?
There's no chance I'm misreporting what happened because there's nowhere else I could have pasted the URL other than the URL bar, since I was logged out of Facebook at the time. I'm puzzled how this happens on a technical level.
- tkxxx7 8y agoI think any JS can listen for the navigate-away event or changes to the URL without doing anything special - then just grab ‘window.href/window.location’ or something like that
- logicallee 8y agoWow, that would be super surprising. I wouldn't think I'm giving Facebook my next destination when I type it manually into the URL bar! Can someone confirm?
- logicallee 8y agoUpdate: this (what tkxxx7 suggests) is not what's happening. It's just a redirect.
- marksomnian 8y agoI doubt that's how that works. What I suspect happened is that fullwsj.com instantly redirected to Facebook, which put up its interstitial page.
- logicallee 8y ago> What I suspect happened is that fullwsj.com instantly redirected to Facebook, which put up its interstitial page. I wanted to reply "can someone check this" but I was like, come on how lazy can I be so I checked. -> Yes, it redirects in the way you suggest. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/puTv5Ar https://imgur.com/a/puTv5Ar (Method: I just installed a redirect checker Chrome extension, the top one, called Redirect Check, lets me check a plain URL also which is what I had it check.)