I have just noticed a strange phenomena on the site formerly known as #twitter:
To check if an old account of mine is still active, I tried to open #x in @firefox Focus on iOS. This does not work at all - it redirects automatically and tries to open the page in Safari.
Has anyone seen this behavious before? Seems like the user agents triggers a redirect…
My guess is that it’s not the specific user agent, it’s twitter doing something stupid with the intention of trying to open that link in its app which since you don’t have it then falls back to the system default web browser.
There’s a “redirector” extension which can be configured to replace links to “x” dot com with “xcancel” dot com if you really need to go there more than once for some reason.
@kbal Thanks, that might indeed explain it… I just thought that they now start blocking certain browsers =)
