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Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

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Re: Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

#5

Not often you encounter a site that makes scrolling choppy.

I'm pretty sure that's because the entire of the site has an 8px Gaussian blur on it:

  .site-main[data-astro-cid-bpoqdqeq] { 
    backdrop-filter:blur(8px); 
  }
Why, exactly? The page looks visually identical when I disable that rule, but the performance skyrockets. I realize that it's probably vibecoded, but come on.

Re: Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

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post #3

Not often you encounter a site that makes scrolling choppy.

Firefox by any chance? Ran recently into another site on here that scrolled fine on anything except Firefox. And this one seems to be fine on safari.

Firefox Android is fine albeit laggy. I don't get why one has to customize scroll behavior but I don't do mobile UX myself.

Re: Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

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Wasn't there a startup that basically did this, but instead of for privacy purposes, it was for creating fake influencer profiles you could use for marketing campaigns? This project feels like a great way to get your accounts banned from various platforms, because this is basically doing that, and platforms have at least a vague interest in banning such things. It tries to hide itself, but doesn't do a good job at it. MockLocationProvider can be easily detected, and so can UA/canvas spoofing. All of this basically screams "I'm running a bot farm", so expect it to be first in line when sites want to do a bot crackdown.
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