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8chanAnon

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About 8chanAnon

Dude who likes programming too much for his own good.

https://8chananon.github.io

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #41780311

    Third article in a series. Explores eval and self-invoking functions.

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    Show HN: Web Scraping with Your Web Browser: Bot Challenges

    Second article in a series. Interesting info regarding Cloudflare.

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    Comment #41724421

    My next article will be on the topic of bypassing the Cloudflare bot protection. You can then compare with how Selenium handles this problem (if at all).

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    Comment #41715530

    Every dark mode site in existence should fail that test.

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    Comment #41715482

    >Some walled garden sites seem completely unscrapable Any examples besides Linkedin? Tell me what sites you're trying to target and I'll have a look to see what can be done with th…

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    Comment #41715004

    WASM runs in a sandbox. It can only talk to the outside world via Javascript so you can forget the idea that it might be a way to crack through browser security. Maybe somebody wil…

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    Comment #41714954

    Is there a happy in-between? Maybe not. What looks perfect to one user might appear atrocious to another. What is a poor website operator to do??? I dislike black-on-white and don'…

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    Comment #41714183

    Red text on yellow - you mean the website? Would you like the text to be darker? And Beautiful Soup should be BeautifulSoup. Who makes the rules?

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    Comment #41714159

    I see. I don't have a wide-screen monitor (still using an old tube type until it finally expires but it's taking a few decades, lol). I've wondered whether people actually like rea…

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    Comment #41713906

    >bad formatting If you can elaborate, I would very much appreciate it. I'm always interested in doing better. Why use Puppeteer etc. when you don't have to? What is the argument fo…

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    Comment #41713862

    Rather long so I'll read it later. Thanks for the tip. Got more or is that it?

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    Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?

    Includes working code. First article in a planned series.

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    Comment #41613737

    I voted "light" because there is no "medium" option. Why is it a choice between gray-on-black or black-on-white? I would choose a "color" mode if there was such an option on the ta…

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    Comment #41613616

    I've been asking the same question myself though I'm not trying to get paying customers. I'm offering free stuff but I can't get many takers. One customer per 1000 views is pretty …

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    Comment #41060372

    I've updated the app to remove the user agent string so that the link will not redirect to "m.youtube.com". I hope that's all that's needed to fix this.

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    Comment #41059750

    Youtube just changed their code. The app is not currently working. Coincidence? I might have to wait a bit to see what else gets changed. Sorry about that. Update: Fixed! Will keep…

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    Comment #41059656

    I have information that Youtube is redirecting from "www.youtube.com" to "m.youtube.com" when it detects a mobile user agent. The page data that is returned appears to be incompati…

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    Comment #41058910

    I have no idea what the potential compatibility issues might be with mobile. This has only been tested on PC. Any way to provide debugging info?

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    Comment #41058359

    Hmm. The title was supposed to be "YouTube Player app in your browser". Why was the word "your" replaced with "the"?

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    Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

    The app bypasses ads and age-gating. Very fast. This is just a scaled-down sample taken from a larger project. For more information: https://8chananon.github.io

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    Comment #40019999

    Who uses the Start Menu? I click on that maybe once in a blue moon to maybe uninstall something. This is just another reason to start doing the Linux thing once this Win10 machine …

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    Comment #40019915

    The strong nuclear force is a figment of the physicists' imaginations. Likewise the weak nuclear force, dark matter and dark energy. The Standard Model does not align with reality …

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    Comment #40019545

    I sympathize. The task is easily accomplished with a properly coded regular expression but, damn, regex is haaaard. Also, there are too many gotchas in parsing random text. It's a …