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The Curious Case of the Y Combinator Bookmarklet
- dang 6y agoOk, I've added the suggested fix. Thanks! onclick="return false"
- Normille 6y agoThis has puzzled me for a long time too. Now I know!
- Tomte 6y agoI still don't understand why HN doesn't want to blacklist submissions of the bookmarklet[1]. Especially since it happens all the time. [1] yes, I've asked.
- etrabroline 6y agoSounds like work. Running hackernews is already a lot of work. Not every good idea rises to the level of someone taking the time to actually do it right away. Updating the bookmarklet would probably be easier and superior at this point thanks to the authors work.
- firloop 6y ago"At some point these links were simply automatically marked dead whenever submitted." Practically speaking, it sounds like the links are blacklisted.
- heckerhut 6y ago*blocklist
- cblconfederate 6y agoIt's probably bots
- Turing_Machine 6y agoAha! Thanks for the investigation. I have also been wondering about that for some time now.
- gabrielsroka 6y agoThe way I usually solve this is to have the bookmarklet itself check if the user is on the "install" page and let them know how to install the bookmarklet. if (location == 'https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html') alert(...