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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by ianferrel on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:25PM (#23646938)
I don't think people are misreading your post as approving of the bug. What people are responding to is your suggestion of a workaround: "If you visit the realty.com site directly..."

And the question is: How do you visit the site directly if typing the domain name into the url field doesn't take you there. Your workaround either doesn't work or needs more explanation.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by codezero on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:30PM (#23646974)
Whoa, thanks for that perspective.

That was NOT meant to be a recommended workaround, that is absurd, so thanks for the downvotes folks!

I was pointing out that after doing that, the default UX behavior leading to the “bad” website no longer happens, indicating it is all about UX and not a DNS thing, or other weird Safari bug.

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