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Excellent! Stealth redirects and vibrating ads are what drove me to Firefox for Android with uBlock. Note that developers could protect their sites for some ti
by hdhzy 9y ago
Excellent! Stealth redirects and vibrating ads are what drove me to Firefox for Android with uBlock.
Note that developers could protect their sites for some time with noopener: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
- ravenstine 9y agoVibrating ads as in they move around or they cause your phone to vibrate? Never seen that, but either way that makes me all the more glad to have ad blocking installed at the root level. The level of annoyance the ad industry goes to is astounding.
- hdhzy 9y agoThey cause my phone to vibrate "thanks to" the Vibration API [0]. A critical component of the Web Platform ecosystem apparently. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...
- r00fus 9y agoIn time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
- deftturtle 9y agoSeems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.