> The original work by Bjorn Staal https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172732259457002734 used localStorage, but I found sockets more fun, because if tweaked a bit, this can be shared with friends. Anyone have a link to what this was? The tweet is gone.
He gives the link on GitHub but here it is (video) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7133171...
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#132The 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
Source code: https://github.com/feross/TheAnnoyingSite.
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#134You can use a BroadcastChannel to send messages between the Windows directly. This should reduce latency when working locally.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure this is tongue-in-cheek, given the commenter (pretty high profile dev who creates a lot of cool stuff and does not shy away from using other open source code!) :)
Aw I thought it would be obvious :( Thanks for clarifying, of course nobody makes anything without being inspired from something that already existed, at least to a degree. I guess it's hard to accurately convey sarcasm online, thanks again!
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
You likely have `privacy.resistFingerprinting` set to true.
as everyone should! people forget lesson from recent past. i don't know when google strong armed w3c to include this back... but we had this since ie4 days and then disabled everywhere since it was abused left and right for click jacking attacks.
Not until Mozilla stops telling websites that I want a light color scheme if I turn it on. privacy.resistFingerprinting does too many things and you shouldn't need to use that sledgehammer to prevent the browser from leaking information that no website should know.
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#139None of these screen properties should be available to websites.