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Well I’m still wondering how they are showing a text only to people who submitted something to HN and nobody seems to know either in the thread so at least ther
by frizlab 3y ago
Well I’m still wondering how they are showing a text only to people who submitted something to HN and nobody seems to know either in the thread so at least there’s that…
- mindcrime 3y agoFair enough. :-)
- shoxidizer 3y agoIt uses a CSS rule that checks if you have visited the link to submit on hacker news. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503368406970051 https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503368406970051
- throwawayadvsec 3y agowait so you can detect if any of your visitors visited any link before? isn't that a huge privacy risk?
- shoxidizer 3y agoIt's probably not being done here , but it's possible to do. The CSS rule is processed in your browser, so it doesn't actually tell the server if you've been to the link, but in theory a website could have some javascript that tries to detect if the CSS rule was activated.