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So THATS why I was Rickrolled the other day...

• SamBam 6y ago
  I'm a little confused about this point. The website had a random timer, and was then opening a tab in the background? I thought that modern browsers required a direct user-interaction to cause a new tab to appear, such as a click. I thought this was how we got out of the pop-up hell of the 90s?
  • ejones 6y ago
    It just navigated the page itself by assigning window.location.href, which isn't subject to the same restrictions as popups.
  • deleted 6y ago
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  • whizzter 6y ago
    Reading some of these I think that many people have the same usage-pattern as I do, ie go to some aggregator site like HN and open a bunch of articles in one sweep and then read them. So what happened was that the site opened in a tab, people didn't get to it immediately so when they got around to it the timer had fired and they were rickrolled.
    • SamBam 6y ago
      Ah, got it, yes re-reading the tweets I see that this is what happened.
  • corobo 6y ago
    The page just refreshed. No new tabs.