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The quality of full screen takeover pages seems to have dramatically risen recently. My family members, who don’t know the Escape key exists, accidentally click
by keane 3y ago
The quality of full screen takeover pages seems to have dramatically risen recently. My family members, who don’t know the Escape key exists, accidentally click one from a banner ad every week now taking them to a page like examplefoobar38561.cloudfront.net and the use of elements that imitate browser or OS chrome (generally imitating Windows Defender or similar) has reached near perfection. All browsers should have a setting to permanently block full screen mode for all sites (not “ask”).
- TeMPOraL 3y agoMaybe one of these days scammers will release their UI elements as web components or React whatever, so we'll finally get some high-quality JS versions of native UI elements; maybe we could get Electron app developers to use them.
- anon25783 3y agointroducing the new native-feel component library for cross-platform development, Crimes.js
- gjsman-1000 3y ago> All browsers should have a setting to permanently block full screen mode for all sites (not “ask”). Never going to happen, because that's breaking YouTube.
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoGoogle probably prefers when you don't fullscreen the video; More ways to have your eyes drawn to ads, recommendations, and comments in the periphery. Maybe this is why they added the different "bigger but still not fullscreen" modes a few years back.
- nilsherzig 3y agoDon't they already whitelist YouTube for Autoplay with sound or something like that
- jowea 3y agoMake it a permission like with audio recording etc and maybe add a whitelist for known sites.
- nathancahill 3y agoFull screen still requires a direct user action. So there should still be a step/click between the banner ad and the takeover. But wow.
- jowea 3y agoCan't it be clicking the ad?
- nathancahill 3y agoIf the page is running arbitrary JS served by ads, the site itself is compromised.
- jen729w 3y agoAfter seeing Krebs' post the other day, we now have a call scheduled with my partner's parents who still own a Windows laptop. I'm going to tell them that they should no longer use it for any sort of financial work. No banks, no shares, nothing. Ever, for any reason. This stuff is too good now. Most of us -- and I include the tech-literate, because we all slip eventually -- are basically helpless at this point. Solution? iOS apps, or, I'm sorry, use a Mac. I know it's not immune to malware but for all practical purposes it might as well be.
- i5-2520M 3y agoChromeOS?
- hospadar 3y agoObv the solution is to just pick a really wacky desktop ui theme that the h4x0rs won’t guess to imitate :p /s