Yuck all round. I mean ticketmaster is just a sin eater for greedy popstars but yuck ..
Yes, but also it's an impressive digital Jedi mind trick on a website.
signs a question mark with hand
"This is the support number you're looking for."
And the victim is extra primed here because so many companies make it nearly impossible to talk to a human. Yikes!
Almost seems like there's room here for a grey hat to come in and use this trick to do a good faith job trying to help the customer through their problem. Then tell them at the end that a recent anti-trust suit requires them to tell the customer about alternate independent venues in their area where they can support live music.
Bonus points if you point to the actual anti-trust suit!
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
... call the scam numbers to tie up their staff and prevent them from talking to potential victims. Someone like Kitboga could do this at scale. Where there's a phone number, there's a way.
Here's a real example from the same thing happening on FB (don't call that number) https://i.redd.it/w9htjqflgjle1.jpeg
Tried tapping that link on mobile, got a screen to view the corresponding post. Tapped it, and I got taken to the App Store. No thanks, force quit the App Store and go back.
Now I get a full screen notice on the original Reddit tab saying “didn’t go where you expected? Next time try the long press!” With instructions to not use private browsing and to long press any link and open in safari. (Wha? You, Reddit, are what are trying to force me to use your app!)
So I long press like they say, open in new tab, and what do I see? A large blank page that just says “REDDIT” in all caps, with the button “Get the app” on the bottom. The link was just to “reddit.app.link” the whole time.
Can’t a company who has a website, just … let me use the website? At every possible turn, Reddit HATES anyone using Reddit from a browser. They will ruin every single aspect of the website they possibly can to try to push you to the app. The entirety of reddit.com seems to be just a broken honeypot to get you to use the app instead. I just can’t fathom how a company can be that broken.
Just delete the Reddit website, it would make more sense.
It's their intention to have the website be a funnel so that they can get more mobile users.
I sometimes use https://old.reddit.com, though it doesn't look that great on mobile, maybe there are some other alternatives.
Its a site where users will often have multiple login for different subjects of discussion.
Of course it is.
It's obnoxious, but if you really want to view the post you can switch the screenshot page to desktop mode, and the "View post" button shouldn't redirect to the App Store. The result isn't pretty but it's readable in a pinch.
(They're still not desperate enough to track the UA and detect the switch.)
All websites seem to freak out over you not getting their damn app if you visit on a phone. I just don't use the phone for browsing if I can help it.
search all of your friends and connections". You may have lost access to your friends and family. To fix this you need to call ....I caught it right after I tried to log in (one of the few sites I remember the password and didn’t have it in a manager). Reset password.
Man did I feel dumb.
I searched the financial institution a few times and the fake ad came up a bunch. I reported but the trust has been broken.
Source: I've also thought this was ridiculous and asked someone working on the adsense team. Apparently tried enforcing some domain verification mechanism in an experiment, but most companies and agencies struggled to get the verification done and of course the $ metrics on this launch dropped, causing execs to force them to stop.
Allow sites that are heavy targets of this kind of scam - like ticketmaster - to add a "AdSense: locked" line to their robots.txt (or similar) - if that line is present then advertisers have to go through an additional domain verification step in order to place an ad.
Apparently Live Nation owns many performance venues and leverages their power in that market to gain an advantage in the ticket sales market. “Sell through us or you won’t be allowed to play at any famous venue in this city” kind of deal.
Don’t have any sources beyond “heard it on a podcast” though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯