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> It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior, You make this sound like a new trend but it was always thus. Didn'
by andybak 9y ago
> It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior,
You make this sound like a new trend but it was always thus.
Didn't you live through the 90s before pop-up blockers were built in to browsers? Not to mentionvarious abusive plugins, attempts to trick you into installing toolbars, the hell that was RealPlayer, rewriting your history to prevent 'back', etc etc.
- outsidetheparty 9y agoah phooey just let me have my totally unwarranted nostalgia for imaginary better days gone by
- 0xfeba 9y agoI wish we lived in a place more like the America of yesteryear that only exists in the brains of us Republicans. - Ned Flanders
- nix0n 9y agoYou're right, but the arms race has marched on. HTML5 has increased the amount of work I have to do, I miss the days when Flashblock was all I needed. (I would love to be wrong about this, please show me an HTML5 blocker with a site-based whitelist.)
- andybak 9y agoNot quite clear on what a "HTML5" blocker is. I'm guessing you don't literally mean "block HTML5"...