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Ask HN: What's the story with “Checking Connection Security” website loaders?
I'm encountering websites that load with a "Checking Connection Security" loading messages.
I'm certain it's some kind of dark pattern, but I can't figure out why a site would want to hijack the page load, instead of doing whatever work is happening in the background.
- arkadiyt 4y agoThey're executing javascript to ensure e.g. you're not running in a headless browser. If you loaded the page and ran it in the background then the person making the request already got access to the page content, it's too late.
- scarface74 4y agoHow does it know that you’re using a headless browser?
- wmf 4y agoFingerprinting the browser using JS.
- cypherg 4y agohelps prevent fraud, bots, spam, etc without forcing the user to solve a CAPTCHA
- mgax 4y agoGitlab does this and sometimes it takes 3-5 seconds. But navigating directly to a repository page bypasses this check.