From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 13 12:34:41 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464C0E46FA8 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A2A63160 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1507898077; x=1510490077; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w6A6TthE7NbZncSm9XKuWDsVGY9SlSNR17rLXmQygVw=; b=YydK/lEnMBtGZAVFLqdnJZayblsMQALETod7A2omS4M1miSp/YZcoCRkaAt7PeQczzGSMo0FC4qQ/fp8U9M36SzfdUF6DGZ15V0+z02CzLz+WH+Q2z6LcgGYTLg16TGvcAThpwqPJAzEcX5gj6h6B+a4ayUbgbgMq06GpE7h4PM= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi5lNTAwMDAwMDBlMjYyOC5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r6.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r6.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com [52.40.216.92]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:34:16 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r6.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256) Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:34:20 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1e2zAO-000Kn1-4l; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:34:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:34:16 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon Subject: Re: Redirection in websites Message-Id: <20171013133416.d9f29e7e9dd287a0ee655e43@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20171013114303.3a1f17da.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20171013114303.3a1f17da.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:34:41 -0000 On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:43:03 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:43:05 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Something strange is going on when I try to visit a website. I type > > www.duckduckgo.com in the address bar, and instead of getting > > duckduckgo, I see google. I do the same but visting www.yandex.com, > > and I get google.com. > > Interestingly, I have seen this strange behaviour on tablets > and on smartphones (in their respective web browsers); it also > happens when you enter an IP, for example 192.168.100.1 (to > connect to a Fritz!Box) - and you get Google search results. > This must be some "helpful modern setting"... A common arrangement these days is that the URL bar is also a search box which will often return the first hit as a page but not always (the algorithm is not clear to me). Giving a full URL complete with the http:// goes direct everything else is search assisted. > > Some of my friends say that it is a conspiracy, 1984 by George Orwell is > > happening. > > It's happening all the time, and nobody cares. Most browsers let you change the search engine used in the URL bar (some are stubborn), I have mine set to startpage. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith