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The analogy isn't being able to ban users and handle spam. It'd be more like adding a feature with the sole purpose of making it easier to post bad comments.
by josephcsible 3y ago
The analogy isn't being able to ban users and handle spam. It'd be more like adding a feature with the sole purpose of making it easier to post bad comments.
- zamadatix 3y agoA clearer relation to how preventing hairy-ball responses, like JWZ has, is like making it easier to post bad comments would be appreciated, I'm having trouble following the relation. Note: sites can still detect HN users and modify content without the referer. E.g., using the CSS styling for if "news.ycombinator.com" is a visited link. If not visited, content hidden. If visited, content shown. Based on the status the site can also trigger a redirect via JS at that point. My comment was that it seems better to let the site just opt out directly, not about what site operators should or shouldn't be doing.
- josephcsible 3y ago> Based on the status the site can also trigger a redirect via JS at that point. Thankfully no it can't, because browser vendors already know about that vulnerability and have fixed it. Visited link styling can only affect color now, and isn't reflected in getComputedStyle, exactly to prevent that kind of thing.
- zamadatix 3y agoShows how up to date I am on the web :). Did this change prevent all custom messages from being displayable or just triggered actions such as the redirect?
- josephcsible 3y agoYou can display custom messages still, by making the unvisited and visited colors different, and then making the background color the same as the unvisited color, but you can't do anything more elaborate than that.