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Accidentally clicked on an ad on the site at the bottom, trying to close it. It sent me to one of those, sites that hijacks the vibrate of your phone, and a bac

by uwotm9 7y ago

Accidentally clicked on an ad on the site at the bottom, trying to close it. It sent me to one of those, sites that hijacks the vibrate of your phone, and a back button that does nothing. If the creator of the comic is here -- please pick a more ethical ad provider.

bagacrap 7y ago
That sounds like a failure of your web browser as much as anything. How on Earth is your phone vibrating without you granting a site notification permission? And recent versions of Chrome limit the degree to which history.pushState() can hijack your back button.
- mkl 7y ago
  > recent versions of Chrome limit the degree to which history.pushState() can hijack your back button. Really? How recent? All I can find are news articles from December last year saying they were working on it, but I've experienced the problem in the last month or so.
  - bagacrap 7y ago
    Should have rolled out in Chrome 76[1] but it appears that work is ongoing as there are multiple ways for pages to interfere with navigation. [1] crrev.com/4e799c718a3580bbe13105075ae6b3e97fd1bc66
- uwotm9 7y ago
  Um, what? Did you look into this before posting? Here's a link that lets you toggle vibration, with code examples...... https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/ https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/
  - bagacrap 7y ago
    No, I didn't know about that api. Thanks for the link. I stand by the statement that it's a browser failure, though, as IMO that should be restricted by a permission and/or user action, but it appears to require neither.
    - uwotm9 7y ago
      You might be right (though wrong on every specific point), but your comments are unhelpful, irrelevant, and distracting.
NoodleIncident 7y ago
I noticed their ads got drastically worse recently; I'm not sure if I got used to them, or if they toned them back a bit, though. Anything could happen if you actually click them, though, that's going to happen on any network
- uwotm9 7y ago
  Yes, and no. Ad networks are supposed to vet for these sorts of issues. The one used by this site clearly doesn't.

by uwotm9 7y ago

bagacrap 7y ago

That sounds like a failure of your web browser as much as anything. How on Earth is your phone vibrating without you granting a site notification permission? And recent versions of Chrome limit the degree to which history.pushState() can hijack your back button.

mkl 7y ago
> recent versions of Chrome limit the degree to which history.pushState() can hijack your back button. Really? How recent? All I can find are news articles from December last year saying they were working on it, but I've experienced the problem in the last month or so.
- bagacrap 7y ago
  Should have rolled out in Chrome 76[1] but it appears that work is ongoing as there are multiple ways for pages to interfere with navigation. [1] crrev.com/4e799c718a3580bbe13105075ae6b3e97fd1bc66
uwotm9 7y ago
Um, what? Did you look into this before posting? Here's a link that lets you toggle vibration, with code examples...... https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/ https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/
- bagacrap 7y ago
  No, I didn't know about that api. Thanks for the link. I stand by the statement that it's a browser failure, though, as IMO that should be restricted by a permission and/or user action, but it appears to require neither.
  - uwotm9 7y ago
    You might be right (though wrong on every specific point), but your comments are unhelpful, irrelevant, and distracting.

NoodleIncident 7y ago

I noticed their ads got drastically worse recently; I'm not sure if I got used to them, or if they toned them back a bit, though. Anything could happen if you actually click them, though, that's going to happen on any network

uwotm9 7y ago
Yes, and no. Ad networks are supposed to vet for these sorts of issues. The one used by this site clearly doesn't.