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[–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the "back" button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.

A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    My android doesn't seem to do that. I just use the back button.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    It is called Gestures Navigation and replaces the three button navigation. It is an available option in the settings if your Android version supports it. Some people don't like it, personally I prefer it except for that one time some asshole website tries to take advantage of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think they're much more likely ignorant to this than malicious.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Is the little descriptive icon there the whole time? Is it there only when you try to use the gesture? It might be malicious if there was no warning at all and it just does it... but to me it seems like they're just trying to apply intuitive design practices in their mobile site design.

    Not everything is an attack, even if one feels attacked.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A website that big is probably malicious, as I feel like iPhone has the same gesture (don't quote me on that)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    No, it doesn’t work that way on iOS in my experience. Swipe from the side of the screen is application-specific.

    Swipe from left is always “go back to where you were previously” or “go back to the main menu of this application.” Swipe from right does nothing unless the application defines it.

    The Independent’s feature might override an iOS browser’s “Forward” feature, if you already used the “Back” feature.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk why we had to get rid of swipe up from the bottom where the 3 icons used to always be. Now if you want to get at all the open stuff I have to execute a corner.

    That first day was a real bitch and a half.

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