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Demand Media makes money by monitoring ad networks and then paying people to churn out worthless content that pollutes search results. They watch metrics very carefully.
Sounds like a pretty unethical way to make money.
There are many news sites that make it extremely hard to share their content on sites like HN or reddit because of these tricks. I wonder if they are actually losing traffic from it, or if their tactics work? I'm referring when you copy the text in the title of an article to try to paste it into the Title box on HN or reddit. But what you 'paste' is actually a huge paragraph about how great the news website is and ho…
Many pages in the New York Times are impossible to select text in. But I just select the text from the page source. After reading this article, I'm thinking that might be a good idea in general.
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Firefox and IE let this feature be configurable: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250473(v=vs.85).a... http://i.stack.imgur.com/jvDUh.png https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences... But the same quick search shows that it does not appear possible to control this in Chrome. If anyone knows how, please correct me.
I just turned this preference off in Firefox, and it didn't stop the demo from working, which makes sense since the preference says it only disables oncopy/cut/paste events, and this demo uses a different method.
How is this method different?
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Moralizing about dawnerd’s employment doesn’t really add to the discussion, IMHO.
A new discussion of the ethics of software engineering might be valuable. Other professions have codes of ethics; maybe it's time for software, too.
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgramme...
zsh actually detects pastes into the terminal and doesn't submit the commands on newlines. This way you see the full command and have to hit enter yourself to run it. It isn't perfect because people could try to obscure the command but in general it makes me a lot happier to paste commands into my terminal.
I was like why does not it works! Then I remembered I had no script enabled, and then I remembered I don't trust JS and browsers by default, they are like OS in my OS that are way complex to be audited and they have access to way too much sensitive things (files, display, keyboard, network).
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Many pages in the New York Times are impossible to select text in. But I just select the text from the page source. After reading this article, I'm thinking that might be a good idea in general.
I do too. But sometimes there's no text in source, just scripts :(
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Firefox and IE let this feature be configurable: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250473(v=vs.85).a... http://i.stack.imgur.com/jvDUh.png https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences... But the same quick search shows that it does not appear possible to control this in Chrome. If anyone knows how, please correct me.
I tried the demo in Safari 9.1.1 (11601.6.17) and got "not evil" in the Terminal.
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I just turned this preference off in Firefox, and it didn't stop the demo from working, which makes sense since the preference says it only disables oncopy/cut/paste events, and this demo uses a different method.
> I just turned this preference off in Firefox, and it didn't stop the demo from working, which makes sense since the preference says it only disables oncopy/cut/paste events, and this demo uses a different method. How is this method different?
This method is more sophisticated; it monitors the whole page for copy commands, and has an event listener watching to see when this 'copy' command is executed.
