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DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad. I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps ar

DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad. I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps around with a cat image, every time I try to kill it with cmd+w, it repawns into another small window. I think it remaps cmd+w to cmd+p, and just plays dubstep in the background. Oh, and at some point, a random cat headbanging cat appears, and the voices goes from saying "a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a" to "I can't see the inside of my mouth". I think it also logged me out of gmail. I had to kill Chrome. Don't open it in your main browser, use incognito mode, or the private browsing mode of a different browser so that you can kill the entire browser without losing HN access — because that's what you'll probably end up doing. Edit: Oh, it seems to be easier to kill on Firefox. Also, it keeps asking for webcam and mic access, and to be set as the default application for bitcoin links?!!! Edit: A way to get out without killing Chrome is: "press cmd+w" to get to the "print" screen. That seems to stop the windows from moving around. Then kill all the other windows first, and kill this "print" window last. You'll it say "please don't go" every time — but don't give in!

bazacko 8y ago
I somehow managed to escape without killing chrome, after I closed a dozen of the windows with a combination of cmd+w and clicking the close button. It definitely logged me out of my google and amazon accounts. Edit: here's a talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A
MagicPropmaker 8y ago
Microsoft Edge had no trouble dealing with it. I let it rip, with the adblocker off to see if it would crash. Handled it all fine. Then I just told it to close all the additional windows it brought up. Of course, it did log me out of everything.
dgellow 8y ago
I laughed so hard reading your comment then sources. A bit unfortunate (or not), on mobile it doesn’t seem to do anything interesting other than pollute my history with a bunch of entries.
cosmojg 8y ago
As someone who browses the internet with JavaScript disabled by default, I've never felt more vindicated.
- GLjEI4YbnGD27LB 8y ago
  Exactly, it's just a white page for me.
- burgerboy 8y ago
  Wow congrats
leowoo91 8y ago
Fun aside, that means no browser has a popup rate limit in 2018?
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bigbugbag 8y ago
I did the same as you of curiosity and was wondering what this site is even supposed to do. I guess my disabling of javascript by default to avoid annoyances, improve performance and save battery rendered the annoying part useless. Sometimes I wish mozilla had chosen to make firefox more like opera (the real opera, not the chrome based one) and not like chrome with the quick disable/enable script setting instead of removing the possibility to disable javascript altogether. Actually I wish opera was still around to not have to deal with mozilla nonsense by resorting to using a different build (waterfox) to mitigate most of it.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Yeah I hate that they burried the option to disable JS and even worse to disable JS moving and resizing a window around the screen. At least make those things the end-user is asked for permission to allow.
  - userbinator 8y ago
    For those who haven't seen it: https://www.technorms.com/assets/sshot-624.png https://www.technorms.com/assets/sshot-624.png I hate the dumbing-down of browser configuration (and UIs in general) too, but given the actual people who make the decisions on what browsers do, it's not surprising --- turning the userbase into obedient ad-clicking dummies (and preventing them from learning about e.g. the world of disabled JS) is the best way to monetise them, after all.
    - giancarlostoro 8y ago
      I think they can dumb it down if they want.... BUT have an 'advanced' button for people who know what they're doing. I wonder how simple of a plugin it could be to make a 'Firefox Config Plus' if one doesn't already exist...
- iforgotpassword 8y ago
  Thanks now I'll be all depressed missing old opera again for two weeks.
amingilani 8y ago
Yeah, my downloads are FULL of cat images.

bazacko 8y ago

I somehow managed to escape without killing chrome, after I closed a dozen of the windows with a combination of cmd+w and clicking the close button. It definitely logged me out of my google and amazon accounts. Edit: here's a talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A

MagicPropmaker 8y ago

Microsoft Edge had no trouble dealing with it. I let it rip, with the adblocker off to see if it would crash. Handled it all fine. Then I just told it to close all the additional windows it brought up. Of course, it did log me out of everything.

dgellow 8y ago

I laughed so hard reading your comment then sources. A bit unfortunate (or not), on mobile it doesn’t seem to do anything interesting other than pollute my history with a bunch of entries.

cosmojg 8y ago

As someone who browses the internet with JavaScript disabled by default, I've never felt more vindicated.

GLjEI4YbnGD27LB 8y ago
Exactly, it's just a white page for me.
burgerboy 8y ago
Wow congrats

leowoo91 8y ago

Fun aside, that means no browser has a popup rate limit in 2018?

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bigbugbag 8y ago

I did the same as you of curiosity and was wondering what this site is even supposed to do. I guess my disabling of javascript by default to avoid annoyances, improve performance and save battery rendered the annoying part useless. Sometimes I wish mozilla had chosen to make firefox more like opera (the real opera, not the chrome based one) and not like chrome with the quick disable/enable script setting instead of removing the possibility to disable javascript altogether. Actually I wish opera was still around to not have to deal with mozilla nonsense by resorting to using a different build (waterfox) to mitigate most of it.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
Yeah I hate that they burried the option to disable JS and even worse to disable JS moving and resizing a window around the screen. At least make those things the end-user is asked for permission to allow.
- userbinator 8y ago
  For those who haven't seen it: https://www.technorms.com/assets/sshot-624.png https://www.technorms.com/assets/sshot-624.png I hate the dumbing-down of browser configuration (and UIs in general) too, but given the actual people who make the decisions on what browsers do, it's not surprising --- turning the userbase into obedient ad-clicking dummies (and preventing them from learning about e.g. the world of disabled JS) is the best way to monetise them, after all.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    I think they can dumb it down if they want.... BUT have an 'advanced' button for people who know what they're doing. I wonder how simple of a plugin it could be to make a 'Firefox Config Plus' if one doesn't already exist...
iforgotpassword 8y ago
Thanks now I'll be all depressed missing old opera again for two weeks.

amingilani 8y ago

Yeah, my downloads are FULL of cat images.