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Excellent! Stealth redirects and vibrating ads are what drove me to Firefox for Android with uBlock.

Note that developers could protect their sites for some time with noopener: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/

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Vibrating ads as in they move around or they cause your phone to vibrate? Never seen that, but either way that makes me all the more glad to have ad blocking installed at the root level. The level of annoyance the ad industry goes to is astounding.

They cause my phone to vibrate "thanks to" the Vibration API [0]. A critical component of the Web Platform ecosystem apparently.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

In time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

Seems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.

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