Forced stripe redirect

seajay

On numerous websites, particularly online storefronts or scheduling sites, my browser will automatically redirect to m.stripe.network, which is just a white blank page without options. I can go back to the previous page, but usually it just redirects right back. Often, this means I have to use a different browser app altogether to utilize the specific site.

Ideally, I want to be able to use any site without automatically being redirected, let alone to an unreconcilable one.

1.5.2

jeanetienne

Hi seajay, thank you for taking the time to report this bug!

Would you mind sharing the address of such pages that lead you to m.stripe.network so I can try to reproduce the issue as well?

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!

Bugbounty

I get the same issue. I happens when I visit https://edition.cnn.com/ on iphone

I have tried a million ways to fix this. Safari works fine. I am willing to follow 100 steps if it fixes this.

seajay

jeanetienne of course! Sephora.com is a constant one. Another one is for businesses that use https://www.phorest.com/us/ as their booking site (I don’t want to list any specific ones since they’re local, but it does go for all of them I’ve tried). Petbar uses a scheduling system through mytime.com for all their locations, and the same redirect occurs.
It pops up occasionally on news sites as well, though I can’t find any specific links right now (will update if that changes). On those occasions, hopping into reader mode before the site fully loads sometimes works.

It feels important to note that I do have a couple extensions enabled, and originally thought that may be the issue— namely, uBlock Origin and Ghostery. However, I have tried both disabling them on affected sites and uninstalling them altogether, and had no change.

Thank you so much for your help!

Bugbounty

Oh yes, Phorest! I've only recently encountered this as my hairdresser uses it to book appointments. Could this be the common factor? I also have uBlock origin, as well as Decentraleyes, and Privacy Badger.

jeanetienne

Hi seajay Bugbounty thank you both for the details!

Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce the issue just yet, the pages load fine for me. Would you mind sharing more information?:

Which version of Orion are you on now? (You can find it in Settings → About).
If you remove all your extensions at the same time, then force quit Orion and open the page again, does it still happen?
Does it happen when you type the address yourself, or only when you open a link from another app, like Gmail?
Would you mind sharing a video recording of the issue happening?

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!

seajay

jeanetienne I’m on version 1.5.2 (4) (WebKit 8624.5.1.10.3), and attached is a screen recording.

However, while testing this, I also reattempted switching off all my extensions one by one, and realized it only occurred while I had the Clear URL extension enabled. @Bugbounty do you have this one too?
I’m going to try browsing for a little while without it enabled to be sure, but I do think that actually ended up being the issue. I’m not a developer myself, but it seems whatever they use to take out tracking ended up acting as a weird redirect service.

Thanks again for the help! Ultimately seems like an extension issue, but again, screen recording attached in case anyone else runs into this.

Bugbounty

Yes! I do have ClearURLs. When I disable it the problem goes away. Nice job on the process of elimination!

jeanetienne

Hi seajay and Bugbounty, thank you for following up, this is really valuable info!

Despite the fact that disabling the extension solves the issue, there is still a bug in Orion, and I could find it thanks to your help. You can obviously disable ClearURLs in the meantime, but we'll work on a fix so you can keep using the extension.

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!

jeanetienne

Hi again seajay and Bugbounty !

We shipped a small for this issue in TestFlight build 1.5.6 (3). If you don't have access to our TestFlight, we will probably release the next version to the App Store some time next week.

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!