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by JimRoepcke 3411 days ago
Wow that site hijacks the edge swipe to go to another blog post instead of letting the browser go back. Gross.
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That's because it is, for some reason, hosted on Blogger (which even Google themselves have abandoned for their corporate blog).
I'll be glad to see Blogger die. Such terrible UX.

Still today, its editing interface is awful and reminiscent of the early 2000s WYSIWYG editors.

Still today, some Blogger blogs I visit (including one of my own old ones) simply DO NOT LOAD, they are stuck at an infinite loading Javascript spinner.

Even still today, it insists on serving me all its content in the language of the country I'm currently visiting, even though I have my language set to en-us in my Google account and on my browser and I consistently change its language settings back to English.

Their new entirely-JS based layout only happened after Google bought them.

Before that, Blogger's sites were completely degradable and perfectly functional without Javascript enabled. Then Google decided to remake all the templates to be fully JS driven and added a ton of page weight to the site.

So what does google use for corporate blogs, then?
Imgur does that as well on mobile. It's a terrible design because I'm scrolling down sometimes and it switches images instead. Not a big fan!
The bigger problem is that your browser let it without your permission.
What OS/browser are you running? iOS 10.2.1 with safari seems to work as expected for me.