• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been on sites that track how many articles I’ve read and wait to hit me with the pay wall after some amount

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, but our mate’s phone here isn’t even loading the mobile site. So either it’s a dodgey half-assed phone with some random operating system or unknown browser, or something’s telling it to behave like that. Forget the whole paywall part if you must. There’s no mobile elements being loaded. The site’s being told the device is not a mobile device or a normal OS. And I highly doubt that site’s ignoring W3C standards, since it isn’t run by a old guy named Gary still using Geocities.

      Just sayin’ this is a common malware indicator. The whole point of it is to convince that everything’s normal, so at the moment I’d consider it C-grade success malware because apparently to everyone else this very abnornal behaviour seems normal.

      But what do I know. Ain’t my phone anyway. Forget I mentioned it out of the blue for no reason :) I’m sure it’s fiiiiine. Especially if they’re on an custom or cheap Android-based OS and don’t know what they’re doing (Note: Drenched sarcasm)

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        5 months ago

        Idk what you mean by mobile elements aren’t being loaded. Does the title of the article not count? I can see it behind the paywall banner

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          5 months ago

          Top header with mobile menu. Usually set to only show for mainstream mobile browsers. Could only be WebKit. iOS only got full WebKit support in 17.