it crashes this hardware apparently:
- macOS 14.7.3 (23H417)
- Chrome 152.0.7977.84
- Hardware: MacBookPro17,1 (Apple M1)The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
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Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#122Tried it and now I cant boot even in safe mode. I love it
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#123It freezes a Pixel 10 on Chrome, Webviews and Brave..! I tried several webview-based browsers, Chrome, and Brave, with them the phone completely freezes (except that the audio keeps going for a bit). I tested webview browsers because by chance the first place I ran it on was Telegram's internal browser (on which the phone does freeze). It doesn't do anything on Firefox though, and weirdly enough not even on the Chrom…
pixel 9 fold with Graphene, nothing significant in vanadium (after manually enabling JS)
Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#124> I was surprised when it hung my computer and of course asked "Does it do that every time?"
A true scientist! (see https://xkcd.com/242/)
Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#125Tried it and now I cant boot even in safe mode. I love it
are you saying that it corrupted the OS install / bricked your Mac?
Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#126Tried it and now I cant boot even in safe mode. I love it
are you saying that it corrupted the OS install / bricked your Mac?
I guess so. I tried safe Mode, deleting chrome via terminal in recovery. Mac stops rendering as soon as I enter my disk password and it continues to load the system. Now in recovery trying to reinstall lol
Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#127This has been around since 2011 when WebGL shipped. It's documented in the spec. It's a self correcting problem. You go to a site, it freezes your machine, you never visit the site again. No data is stolen, no privacy is lost. All that happens is the perp loses any audience. Turning off WebGL = no more Figma, no more Canva, no more Google Maps. A few self correcting sites seem acceptable. Evidence, it's been 15 years…
Do you think a regular user knows how to block a specific website or never click a link leading to it again? And what about the ads people, adding such a thing if you don't load their ads? I think this point of view is making it a bit too easy.
As someone who supports some bottom of the barrel "regular users".. they aren't monkeys. They have brains that function enough to process "oh, I shouldn't do that again".
Re: The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
#128Back in the 90s when the web was non-commercial and fun, I added a "Don't Click Me" link that loaded a 'browser test' page (after a series of "are you really really sure?" dialogs) that exploited every historical browser bug I could find. Infinite popups, inescapable dialogs, ActiveX quirks, various hangs and crashes, the works. If it didn't crash your computer, it eventually displayed a single popup that said "Congr…
I remember in the 2000s, Dattebayo fansubs had a custom 404 page (for anyone trying to download an episode before they published it I guess), that would do similar. Endless popups, a really bad full volume audio loop, and every other trick to make it impossible to close the page. Was quite the jumpscare.