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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did the same as you of curiosity and was wondering what this site is even supposed to do. I guess my disabling of javascript by default to avoid annoyances, improve performance and save battery rendered the annoying part useless. Sometimes I wish mozilla had chosen to make firefox more like opera (the real opera, not the chrome based one) and not like chrome with the quick disable/enable script setting instead of r…

Yeah I hate that they burried the option to disable JS and even worse to disable JS moving and resizing a window around the screen. At least make those things the end-user is asked for permission to allow.

For those who haven't seen it: https://www.technorms.com/assets/sshot-624.png

I hate the dumbing-down of browser configuration (and UIs in general) too, but given the actual people who make the decisions on what browsers do, it's not surprising --- turning the userbase into obedient ad-clicking dummies (and preventing them from learning about e.g. the world of disabled JS) is the best way to monetise them, after all.

Re: The Annoying Site: Source

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> 'YouTube': ['POST', ' https://www.youtube.com' , {'action_logout': '1'}] Didn't knew it was post possible to `js` fire a post on a third party website.

So my understanding is that they just had to find a Google site capable of logout and has a weak CORS setting? Am I getting that right? Usually you would just configure, "no, don't accept VERBs from other origins."

I'd love to know why YouTube needs to allow logout from other origins.

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DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad. I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps around with a cat image, every time I try to kill it with cmd+w, it repawns into another small window. I think it remaps cmd+w to cmd+p, and just plays dubstep in the background. Oh, and at some point, a random cat headbanging cat appears, and the voices goes fro…

As someone who browses the internet with JavaScript disabled by default, I've never felt more vindicated.

Exactly, it's just a white page for me.

Re: The Annoying Site: Source

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DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad. I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps around with a cat image, every time I try to kill it with cmd+w, it repawns into another small window. I think it remaps cmd+w to cmd+p, and just plays dubstep in the background. Oh, and at some point, a random cat headbanging cat appears, and the voices goes fro…

I did the same as you of curiosity and was wondering what this site is even supposed to do. I guess my disabling of javascript by default to avoid annoyances, improve performance and save battery rendered the annoying part useless. Sometimes I wish mozilla had chosen to make firefox more like opera (the real opera, not the chrome based one) and not like chrome with the quick disable/enable script setting instead of r…

Thanks now I'll be all depressed missing old opera again for two weeks.

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#39
The author gave a talk on this: https://www.dotconferences.com/2017/12/feross-aboukhadijeh-t...

Some great links present there.

https://feross.org/webcam-spy/

https://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

https://feross.org/

http://www.filldisk.com/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open

Re: The Annoying Site: Source

#40
post #15

DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad. I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps around with a cat image, every time I try to kill it with cmd+w, it repawns into another small window. I think it remaps cmd+w to cmd+p, and just plays dubstep in the background. Oh, and at some point, a random cat headbanging cat appears, and the voices goes fro…

As someone who browses the internet with JavaScript disabled by default, I've never felt more vindicated.

Wow congrats
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