Possible redirect bug
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Visit love.com and you will see that it redirects you to https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising (in 2020). This is correct.
Now while on https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising type love.com again in the address bar and hit enter. This should redirect you back to https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising but instead reloads the page and keeps love.com in the address bar. (Same behavior with F5 and reload toolbar button)
This is different to how chrome and firefox work and also different from how I would expect
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Confirmed. FWIW, Opera and Legacy Edge also behave similar to Chrome and Firefox, so it appears to be unique to Vivaldi.
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Unable to re-produce this in Vivaldi, also Windows here. Tried it also with all extensions off.
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@0asdf I do use some extensions but I tried this in a private window, does that disable all extensions by default?
Version 2.11.1811.38 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
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Maybe a quirk in how Vivaldi handles redirects. Please report as a bug here:
https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/Make sure to clearly specify how to reproduce it.
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@0asdf In my case, the problem occurred within a private Vivaldi window with no extensions. In a 'regular' Vivaldi window, I use Ghostery (which normally is set to block JavaScript) and the page wouldn't load at all for that reason. My Vivaldi is set for session cookies and to block 3rd-party cookies as well. Otherwise, I also use MVPS hosts blocking system-wide, though that shouldn't be a factor since the issue does not occur with non-Vivaldi browsers on that same system.
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@0asdf said in Possible redirect bug:
Unable to re-produce this in Vivaldi, also Windows here. Tried it also with all extensions off.
Also to be clear, the page still redirects the content, it just doesn't update the address bar. Are these the steps you're following?
- Type love.com in address bar, hit enter
- Confirm it redirects you to https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising
- In address bar, overwrite https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising and type love.com again, hit enter
- Confirm it reloads page (correctly showing content for https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising) however address bar now (incorrectly) shows love.com. All other popular browsers change address bar to https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising
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Yeah, I'm doing it exactly like that. Here's also a GIF showing it: https://pictshare.net/8bjf98.gif.
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@browseruser said in Possible redirect bug:
I tried this in a private window, does that disable all extensions by default?
By default but not guaranteed. That's why it is best to test in a new, clean profile. In that case you are guaranteed to not have extensions. Why bother doing the work in such a way that a small mistake can invalidate it when there is an alternative that eliminates the possibility of that mistake?
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@0asdf weird, when I try with a new profile (created via Settings->Address Bar->Profile Management), I still get the same behavior as I got before (different than yours).
Here are my address bar settings:
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@0asdf said in Possible redirect bug:
Yeah, I'm doing it exactly like that. Here's also a GIF showing it: https://pictshare.net/8bjf98.gif.
One thing that's also different is I don't get the
_guc_consent_skip
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@browseruser said in Possible redirect bug:
@0asdf said in Possible redirect bug:
Yeah, I'm doing it exactly like that. Here's also a GIF showing it: https://pictshare.net/8bjf98.gif.
One thing that's also different is I don't get the
_guc_consent_skip
parameterDitto, in my case as well - I don't get the parameter after "***/advertising".
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@browseruser Super weird, guys. I tested this again today with the same settings as in my previous tests, but this time after entering love.com I was redirected to this Yahoo page ("Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media"):
After agreeing I was redirected to https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising, without the extra bit at the end anymore.
And now I can confirm having the same "issue" as you, entering love.com again reloads the proper https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising page but the URL in the address bar reverts to love.com.Sorry for the confusion, but that Yahoo page really never showed up before, even without any extensions.
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@0asdf Fascinating! When just now using Opera 12.18 on my system (in which I've got a button that allows me to single-step through redirects), there's no Yahoo intermediate step... that is, the redirect goes directly and only to the Verizon page.
Methinks there's some kind of server-side sniffing or DNS games being played, though it still doesn't explain the persistence of the love.com URL in Vivaldi's address bar for some of us.
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Not sure why this thread is now tagged as "resolved"? But anyway I have never seen that intermediate yahoo page.
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Veredict Virustotal
A URL that redirects to another site is always suspicious.
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IMHO, this isn't a true malware issue. "Love.com" was the title of a Tamil movie released in 2006, which probably explains the intial redirection when entering it into the address bar. It's not an actual URL, so entering it into the address bar would cause a DNS lookup failure and an auto-redirect to the ISP/user's search page related to DNS lookup failures (in this case, Verizonmedia). The question remains why only Vivaldi retains the love.com term in the address bar after retyping love.com and clicking it while still on the Verizonmedia page for some, but not all, users. It's not a major deal, of itself, but seems to be a puzzling Vivaldi quirk that shows up for reasons unique to only some user systems and their network paths.
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@Blackbird , I would worry more if Vivaldi wouldn't. If I search for Love.com in the browser, it also shows me the results of Verizonmedia in the first places and then much later a similar address of a flower business.
Personally, a website that takes me to another site and not to the URL that I have clicked and that has nothing to do with it, is going to be one that I am not going to search again and I will gargle with bleach, after scanning my OS with an AV. -
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@browseruser said in Possible redirect bug:
Redirects are normal and common on the web so, while we've all probably experienced shady redirects, I don't as a rule consider them suspicious. Also the bug isn't particular to love.com that's just an example. You can see the same thing happen with cd.com or I imagine any site with a 301 redirect.
I don't consider it normal, if I see the URL of a page and if I click on this URL, but it takes me to a completely different URL.
The only case where it can be considered normal is, if this page notifies me that it redirects me, because it not longer exist and has moved to this new site and it belongs to the same company. In all other cases I have to think of a malware (highjacker) or at least a page of little confidence, like our example.