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I think what I found particularly beautiful about this was the first ~330k characters of ad-related CSS injected into the header presumably through Github hosti
by bt3 7y ago
I think what I found particularly beautiful about this was the first ~330k characters of ad-related CSS injected into the header presumably through Github hosting or otherwise. I had to scroll about 85% of the way down the page before I hit the <h1> tag!
- LeonB 7y agoeither you're kidding... very good... or your ISP is doing that... but wait that's not possible for https content is it? I don't know, nothing's implausible in this world anymore.
- aesthetics1 7y agoIt's more likely that he has a browser extension that is doing this. I have DarkReader installed, and I similarly saw a bunch of style tags at the beginning of the page related to DarkReader (which applies some CSS rules to make everything "dark mode"). To the GP, you probably want to double-check your browser extensions (unless you were actually kidding).
- so33 7y agoFWIW I don’t see anything extraneous, neither in the source code nor on the page. Browser extensions can inject content, of course; that might be what’s happening here.
- failrate 7y agoYes, HTTPS can be man in the middled by your ISP.
- gridspy 7y agoOnly if they have you trust their certificate root, or you constantly click through the certificate warnings.
- lucasmullens 7y agoThis seems mostly not true. Can you elaborate how?
- mpoteat 7y agoYou might have malware injecting content into your pages.
- saalweachter 7y agoThis document actually makes a fairly good "is my browser doing anything funny?" test document.
- marcinzm 7y agoYou may want to check your computer and browser for malware. Possibly also your ISP but as someone else pointed out that'd be hard to pull off on https.
- chente 7y agoNoticed the same thing and found that it was caused by Ghostery.
- macintux 7y agoMakes the marketing claim that much more amusing. > …to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter…
- userbinator 7y agoTo be fair, hiding elements may mean not fetching any resources needed for their content, which can be faster despite having to parse a bunch of additional CSS first to determine which ones to hide --- especially if the former involves the execution of JavaScript.
- aasasd 7y agoLoading one snippet from an extension (i.e. the cache) is vastly faster than loading dozens of scripts and styles over the network.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y agoIn my case it was Opera's built-in ad blocker.
- Tarrosion 7y agoWhat does this mean about Opera's ad blocker? (I also see a ton of junk up top when Opera's block ads is enabled, but I don't know what to make of this.)
- userbinator 7y agoIt means that it's more of an ad-hider than a blocker, adding more CSS to hide the relevant elements instead of stripping them out completely (which something like a MITM proxy could easily do.)
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- hoolm 7y agoI have the same, but it's just Opera's ad blocking. Check what extensions you have installed
- hibbelig 7y agoI got cVim related stuff in the header :-)