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Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by lgats »

jocaal wrote: post #30

The available API's on the web are very questionable. Feross has a web security lecture series on youtube where he showed off the following abomination. Enter at own risk. https://theannoyingsite.com/

warning, this is really annoying. imagine you're infected with a ton of adware in the early 2000s you will be logged out of many accounts

here's someone testing it out on Windows a few years ago, but I assure you even in the latest chrome on mac, it's at least as bad https://youtu.be/estvbRSj4LU?si=gq6-l4pWLC9yXqap&t=109

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by itronitron »

This, or something similar, would be nice for managing layers in a paint program such as Krita, Inkscape, or Gimp. Could be implemented simply as tabbed panes within the encompassing application window, and whatever tab is selected is the layer that is active for the editing actions.

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by Kiro »

mholt wrote: post #4

More like this: - https://twitter.com/steveruizok/status/1727625036159234555 - https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172732259457002734... - https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1727755227766350031 - https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1727722358465523721

Video of last one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3Hye_47c0Pc

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by dylan604 »

lgats wrote: post #32
jocaal wrote: post #30

The available API's on the web are very questionable. Feross has a web security lecture series on youtube where he showed off the following abomination. Enter at own risk. https://theannoyingsite.com/

warning, this is really annoying. imagine you're infected with a ton of adware in the early 2000s you will be logged out of many accounts here's someone testing it out on Windows a few years ago, but I assure you even in the latest chrome on mac, it's at least as bad https://youtu.be/estvbRSj4LU?si=gq6-l4pWLC9yXqap&t=109

Why would you keep minimizing things instead of closing them? The video just looks like one of those meant to frustrate the viewer into wanting to do it themselves. I blame the creator of that video as much as the site itself. The site itself served a purpose. The person running that video has a much less clear motive

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by geoelectric »

Andrews54757 wrote: post #23
munch117 wrote: post #14

Am I the only one that's horrified that window.screenX and window.screenY exist? This is not information that I want to provide.

Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1]. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...

IIRC, that one and a number of other lower-level “WTF” APIs were introduced for Firefox OS. They made a little more sense in the context of providing an interface for mobile phones using the browser stack.

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Post by zer0kool »

munch117 wrote: post #14

Am I the only one that's horrified that window.screenX and window.screenY exist? This is not information that I want to provide.

Sorry, i'm a little lost. I tried thinking about it, but I can't think of any nefarious attacks someone could do with screenX/Y. Why is that such a risk? What could they possibly learn from that other than screen size?
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