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Many dark patterns at work there. The popup uses misleading words: “continue” which is what you want to do, actually means continue in app and it takes you to App Store. The popup helpfully colors “continue” a nice shade of blue and the “stay on webpage” button is a less visible outline instead of a colored button. When I’m in an hurry, even though I’ve dodged the App Store redirect hundreds of times in the past, it somehow still manages to trick me. And then the whole redirect loop which is rage inducing.

Hopefully ublock origin lite can keep the popups away for a while.



Redirecting safari sites to apps (including app store) should be a per-domain permission that I can revoke.


You're in luck, Orion browser from the same company has this config and asks at the first redirection!


> The popup uses misleading words: “continue” which is what you want to do, actually means continue in app and it takes you to App Store.

Ah yes, they do exactly the same thing with Maps.




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