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Would You Click?
- dham 5y agoWhat is going on with this site?
- ARandomerDude 5y agoDesigner bros in skinny jeans sipping lattes wanting to disrupt reading because it's outdated.
- jivings 5y agoSorry to say that I had to give up on reading this because the scrolling animations were so distracting.
- Kim_Bruning 5y ago<Readability> doesn't work either.
- vortico 5y agoWhy did they have to add the super slow scroll lag? That ruined the whole site.
- jabroni_salad 5y agoI'm a big-time 'less is more' advocate. Please do not mess with my inputs unless you are making a video game, and even then... To any designers out there, really ask yourself if you can engineer better scrolling than what is built into our devices already. Maybe 10 years ago you could have and it would be easy, but web browsers on every platform are pretty good right now in terms of handling our inputs.
- ryandrake 5y agoI would love an HN "AMA" from someone who built one of these monstrosities, to understand how their company processes work/fail, resulting in a work product like this. Doesn't anyone at any point through design/development/deployment speak up and say "Uhh... am I the only one who can see how awful this is?"
- shuntress 5y agoIts good in chrome on android.
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- thesuitonym 5y agoAgreed, this is exhausting.
- favourable 5y agoHad no problems with JavaScript turned off.
- V__ 5y agoI get that these animated articles are nice to look at, but please... STOP overriding my scroll speed!
- jeroenhd 5y agoDoes anyone have a readable version of this website? The scroll effect makes the entire thing utterly unreadable. Edit: all the way at the bottom there's a link to the full report: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
- nightpool 5y agoI believe this is a more-graphical version of this story that's currently on the top of HN: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
- sabeltann 5y agoPhew, reading that site was hard. Link to full report for those who need it: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
- it_was_cool 5y agoForced scroll speed, weirdly distracting font... but the story's good.
- manholio 5y agoNot to mention turning your mouse pointer into some sort of fuzzy ball. Because that's exactly what you need in a pointer, fuzziness and imprecision.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoThis website lags on my MacBook Pro M1 Max. Who thinks this is acceptable?
- throw03172019 5y agoWebsite crashes Safari on iPhone while scrolling.
- favourable 5y agoI reverse engineered a sketchy link I got in an SMS. I opened up Tor, then went to a URL 'de-shortener' service. Furthermore, I saw an interstitial page with a JavaScript payload in it, and it was all obfuscated and obviously coded to hide what it was doing. I could have gone further and unpacked the code, beautifying it to see what 0 day it was leveraging, but I didn't proceed further. Obviously, this was designed to take over my device. Luckily, my default browser is Firefox with JavaScript turned off, so it wouldn't have been able to execute if I did click on the link.
- latexr 5y ago> then went to a URL 'de-shortener' service To get the last URL in a redirect chain with `curl`: curl --silent --location --output /dev/null --write-out '%{url_effective}' 'URL HERE'
- jabroni_salad 5y agoDoes this make your device 'follow' that URL? As someone who is responsible for abuse reports, one of the things I like about services such as hybrid-analysis, joe's sandbox, urlscan.io etc is that I can get some info about a link without having to worry about my local computer or maintain a sandbox. Also, a lot of sketch URLs belong to 'booters' and exist only to collect the IP address of whatever connects to them so someone can ddos it later.
- favourable 5y agoSo in my case I don't want my IP exposed, so I used the Tor Browser Bundle and used something similar to URLEX which expands short links typically found in SMS links. More often than not, the links are benign and trying to phish you, but now and then you find a malicious payload. [0] https://urlex.org/ https://urlex.org/
- meetups323 5y agoIMO much more likely they're mining, phishing, or advertising than sending out 0-days to random phone numbers. Unless you're a far more influential bloke than you're letting on.
- pokoleo 5y ago@dang: here's a better version without scroll lag https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
- exabrial 5y agoFor fucks sake. This page is unreadable. Stop hijacking that danged scrollwheel.
- ARandomerDude 5y agoThis website is visually beautiful. But I hate it. Just let me read.
- techfocususer2 5y agoWould I click this website? Yep (catchy title). Would I share this website? Nope. What a waste of engineering time building this crap. Here is a more readable version https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
- Angostura 5y agoI started reading this, and felt like I was having a stroke. No I wouldn't click on citizen lab again.