Defaulting to mobile versions of websites

Many websites seem to default to their mobile versions when accessing them from the ipad. Most then don't allow you to opt to access the full website...any ways to overcome this?
Also for the past week 80% of the time when the yahoo website is clicked on it automatically defaults to some site called mediaplex, which is weird. This happen to anyone else, any possible reasons? Thanks.

The iPad is not a netbook or a computer replacement. The iPad runs the iPhone OS, which is an optimized version of OS X, so the full Safari version available for a Mac and a Windows PC is not available with the iPad. Safari on the iPad is detected as a mobile version of Safari. Most of the websites I visit that redirect me to the mobile version for the website include an option - a link to view the full version of the website and when selected, this is saved as a cookie.

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Last edited by Box0 (2014-05-25 20:11:14)

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