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In all seriousness, considering Google's track record of discontinuing useful services and features, I expect Chrome to drop View Source any release now. It wil

In all seriousness, considering Google's track record of discontinuing useful services and features, I expect Chrome to drop View Source any release now. It will be a sad day.

dylan604 5y ago
Who browses the web without the DevTools exposed by default? I don't know how to make the web work without "fixing" web pages before attempting to read them.
- jaywalk 5y ago
  Who browses the web with Dev Tools exposed by default? Why do you feel the need to "fix" every web page you look at?
  - dylan604 5y ago
    websites attempting to poorly comply with cookie banners and other GDPR regs that block a site from working without accepting something. I just display:none the offending elements and then remove the overflow:hidden. Disabling JS usually works, but sometimes the images in the page are lazy loaded via JS and will not load without.
    - jaywalk 5y ago
      Here you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-agent-automatic-coo/neooppigbkahgfdhbpbhcccgpimeaafi https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-agent-automa...
      - dylan604 5y ago
        Thanks for playing, but I do not use Chrome. Also, I'm a bit perverse in my enjoyment of doing this on my own.
      - rvbissell 5y ago
        Can websites fingerprint visitors by the particular set of browser extensions/plugins/whatever they have installed? If so, wouldn't extensions such as this one be self-defeating, once you have a handful of them?
    - theandrewbailey 5y ago
      FYI, that's not the View Source feature.
      - dylan604 5y ago
        No, but it's infinitely more useful. All of those SAP that has 4 lines of HTML when View Source is used, but the Inspector shows exactly what elements are currently in the DOM that have been loaded by JS. Of course, you're aware of that just like I'm aware of the difference in tools.
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Sebb767 5y ago
That would also be the day people would have a far harder time optimizing for Chrome. So they'd probably actually help the browser market by doing so.

In all seriousness, considering Google's track record of discontinuing useful services and features, I expect Chrome to drop View Source any release now. It will be a sad day.

dylan604 5y ago

Who browses the web without the DevTools exposed by default? I don't know how to make the web work without "fixing" web pages before attempting to read them.

jaywalk 5y ago
Who browses the web with Dev Tools exposed by default? Why do you feel the need to "fix" every web page you look at?
- dylan604 5y ago
  websites attempting to poorly comply with cookie banners and other GDPR regs that block a site from working without accepting something. I just display:none the offending elements and then remove the overflow:hidden. Disabling JS usually works, but sometimes the images in the page are lazy loaded via JS and will not load without.
  - jaywalk 5y ago
    Here you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-agent-automatic-coo/neooppigbkahgfdhbpbhcccgpimeaafi https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-agent-automa...
    - dylan604 5y ago
      Thanks for playing, but I do not use Chrome. Also, I'm a bit perverse in my enjoyment of doing this on my own.
    - rvbissell 5y ago
      Can websites fingerprint visitors by the particular set of browser extensions/plugins/whatever they have installed? If so, wouldn't extensions such as this one be self-defeating, once you have a handful of them?
  - theandrewbailey 5y ago
    FYI, that's not the View Source feature.
    - dylan604 5y ago
      No, but it's infinitely more useful. All of those SAP that has 4 lines of HTML when View Source is used, but the Inspector shows exactly what elements are currently in the DOM that have been loaded by JS. Of course, you're aware of that just like I'm aware of the difference in tools.

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Sebb767 5y ago

That would also be the day people would have a far harder time optimizing for Chrome. So they'd probably actually help the browser market by doing so.