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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 #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think if you close a window, another pops up. Or two. You should go to this site and test this.

It spawned an app outside of the browser. That's the window being minimized that I meant. I'm not an unawares person to the site's purpose. You're being a bit disingenuous with your reading of my comment

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

#63
post #16

W-why is window LOCATION exposed to websites? Apparently even in FF private browsing... At first I thought this is an electron only thing. I get it that we gave up on fingerprinting resistance but this is like pissing on it's grave. EDIT: privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true fixes the coords to 0

On Wayland, a native window can't even get that information. At least not in a way that works across composiotors.

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

#66

Two more examples of multiple windows as a single unit. This time on the video game side. (Ludum Dare 35 Overall Winner) WindowFrame: https://youtu.be/CY7NUHn6GQg?t=273 Window Kill: https://youtu.be/7iP68FZWVxM?t=160

Metal Marines, a 1993 game with multiple windows that interact with each other: https://youtu.be/KiiAUP1fG14?t=297

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

#67
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/

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

    https://theannoyingsite.com/
Because of the following filter:

    ||theannoyingsite.com^$document
Found in:

    uBlock filters – Badware risks

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

#68

Could someone explain what this means ? ( I’m not even sure I understand the gif on the GitHub page ) I just see windows seemingly sharing data.

I think it's some kind of multiple client, single server setup. The windows are the individual clients, which pass screen geometry info to the server. The server then serves content to clients with different layout that makes content appear as a single object across multiple windows.

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

#70
post #68

Could someone explain what this means ? ( I’m not even sure I understand the gif on the GitHub page ) I just see windows seemingly sharing data.

I think it's some kind of multiple client, single server setup. The windows are the individual clients, which pass screen geometry info to the server. The server then serves content to clients with different layout that makes content appear as a single object across multiple windows.

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