Above all, I think the real problem here is that when people hear “Xbox is failing” they think “No wonder” instead of “What happened?”
Misinformation is fucking everywhere these days. And when you try to point out the truth, people get angry if it doesn’t match up with their feelings.
Well I’m angry that I didn’t hear the misinformation. No one bothered to tell me.
So now the surprise has been ruined, I already know it’s not true.
That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.I really hate how hostile the web has gotten in the past 10 years.
Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You’d land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.
Unless we’re talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn’t have too many problems like this.
because every website got bought out by a major corporation which publicly executes its employees, every hour, on the hour, if their profit line stops going up
this is why ublock origin is a must have when browsing the internet these days
The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.
It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.
I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
At least on Android you can configure whether or not apps use their inbuilt webview or just redirect to the proper browser. That feature probably doesn’t exist on iOS because Apple have opinions about customizability, and it’s that you shouldn’t have any.
I’m on Android. You’ve motivated me to dig up that setting and change it. I had assumed that each application handled that individually.
Mm. Looks like Android also has that locked down these days. We need a viable Linux phone.
If you’re using webview on Android it’s because it uses Chrome still
Not if you have your default browser set to Firefox
If you’re using Graphene sure, but as far as I’m aware you can’t change webview on stock Android (doesn’t even show Geckoview in the options for WebView in the developer settings
I guess it depends on whether the app embeds the default browser or is hardcoded to use webview. I don’t know many apps that will trigger a load of random sites that do the latter, though.
Here’s an archived version without the hijacking:
Web developers have no say on this, when their bosses demand for more pop ups and bigger logos that stay in your face for longer.
I don’t have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
All I get is the cookie pop-up. But jokes on them because I’m on the duck duck go browser so they don’t get any tracking info.
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.
I don’t know, I think a rag calling itself Windows Central might have a bias towards Microsoft…
Even the tone of the article sounds like their arms are tired from carrying their water.
One thing after another, Microsoft is forced to respond time and time again to ongoing rumors that it’s leaving the hardware space.
A new Xbox rumor started this weekend that’s now blown out of proportion, as usual.
Can you bitch any harder?
I did a 2 minute lazy search when people were talking about this, and its not just some random reddit post, several people working at stores posted online on several platforms that stock was being moved around or removed entirely.
Most likely its just brick and mortar stores moving product around to locations that are actually selling, or planning ahead for black friday deals. Nothing groundbreaking, but this site was the first that was heavily defending Microsoft for no reason lol.
Too late.
The last Target I was at only had Xbox games in their clearance section and they were last years sporto titles, nothing current.
Small selection of Playstation and Switch games.
At least in Europe supermarket seem to have stopped selling games entirely. I think they think everyone’s going digital but I would actually like it physical copy.
So now the only place you can buy physical games is to go into JJB sports (scumbag company, do not buy from them) and go to the small Game section.
So it’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy, no one buys physical anymore because it’s such a pain to buy physical so supermarkets are no longer stocking the games because it isn’t profitable but it isn’t profitable because they’re not stocking them.
Doubt
