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Wait until Jeff hears about Service Workers. :)
by feross 6y ago
Wait until Jeff hears about Service Workers. :)
- jeffmcmahan 6y agoThat was my immediate impression as to what was going on. This guy doesn't know about service workers...
- zests 6y agoWhat's the deal with service workers? I read up on them and do not see how they keep connections open when the page is closed.
- Arnavion 6y agoService workers run in the background independent of any website pages open.
- boring_twenties 6y agoFor the uninitiated: 1) uMatrix can block these. 2) about:serviceworkers lets you manage/remove individual ones. 3) about:config key dom.serviceWorkers.enabled lets you disable the whole thing altogether. edit: fixed #3
- KingOfCoders 6y agoThanks for "about:serviceworkers", found around 30.
- peppermint_tea 6y agothank you, I learned about service worker lately while doing some web development(not my usual cup of tea) and I backed off and used a rss feed instead because I found modern web too intrusive/google centric. Just disabled service worker in my firefox (+no script)
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoI hadn't heard of Service workers until now. I'm fairly privacy conscious and it's become such a hassle trying to keep up with these measures. It seems every other month there is a new feature I need to know to disable in Firefox. I'm so tired of it. How does one keep track of all this without having to be a professional web dev?
- pixl97 6y ago>How does one keep track of all this without having to be a professional web dev? I've got some bad news here.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI would suspect you'd have to keep up with the browser developer's pages as well as several security blogs. AKA just about impossible.
- rasz 6y agoublock can inject this to every opened page before js starts running delete Object.getPrototypeOf(window.navigator).serviceWorker delete window.ServiceWorker delete window.ServiceWorkerRegistration delete window.ServiceWorkerContainer