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Leave it to The Register to clickbait the research. This is nothing new btw. Side-channel attacks on other tabs have been known for more than a decade, and is o
by ccnafr 8y ago
Leave it to The Register to clickbait the research. This is nothing new btw. Side-channel attacks on other tabs have been known for more than a decade, and is one of the legitimate reasons why the NoScript plugin was developed, among others.
- detritus 8y agoIt's not ‘clickbait’, it's a headline. It's meant to attract attention and engage the user. See the red top header The Register uses? That's a nod to British tabloid newspaper mastheads going back decades, and The Register likens itself to similar hovels of deplorable journalist talent-waste. Not everything is some clinically cynical attempt to con the contemporary reader — sometimes such effort is intentionally tongue-in-cheek for a knowing readership.
- efdee 8y agoI can't be the only one who feels The Register _IS_ a tabloid. Not tongue-in-cheek.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoYep. It feels like the "IT National Enquirer". * SEE WHAT INTERNET EXPLORDED DID BEHIND THE SCENES! * 10 SECRETS FIREFOX DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW * USING A FREE VPN? WHY NOT SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND SEND YOUR DATA TO XI JINGPING? * MICROSOFT: YOU LOOKIN AT ME FUNNY? OH, YOU JUST WANT TO SIGN IN (Btw, the last 2 are legit, from the website right now...)
- admax88q 8y ago> USING A FREE VPN? WHY NOT SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND SEND YOUR DATA TO XI JINGPING? That's a great headline. What's your problem with it? Does IT journalism need to be dry and purely technical?
- detritus 8y agoSomewhat ironically, The Register has a misbegotten step-sibling, https://www.theinquirer.net/ https://www.theinquirer.net/ [1], which tends towards the dry and purely technical and I've always found it thoroughly unenjoyable. [1] I can't remember the history [2], but long ago there was some disagreement and subsequent parting of ways and The Inquirer was born [2] Wikipedia does though, obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register "[co-founder Mike] Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye."
- ccnafr 8y agoIt's still clickbait, dear The Register employee.
- detritus 8y agohahaha, brilliant — that's possibly the kindest accusation I've had levelled at me this year! Thank you. As for your earnest insistence — I'd perhaps loosen literality a touch ;)
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThere's a point at which pretending to be a jerk becomes indistinguishable from actually being a jerk.
- zhte415 8y agoThey are not 'clickbaiting' it in the web-sense, they're just doing what they do with all stories: They use UK tabloid newspaper style headings, have always used this style, and probably will always use this style. It's not clickbaiting, it's a parody on UK newspapers then with an informative article, usually with plenty of sarcasm. I don't think The Register is looking for Google click-through revenue for people with a search phrase consisting 'cacheflow', 'javascript', and 'browser tabs'. The article explicitly mentions > Side-channel attacks on other tabs have been known Yes, it mentions that, and > one of the legitimate reasons why the NoScript plugin was developed It didn't mention NoScript, indeed it didn't. But it did mention the general case > Disabling JavaScript completely will kill off the attack,