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It seems to redirect you away if you're in Firefox I think? Because I tried to visit it in Firefox on my phone and it instantly redirected me to the about:blank

It seems to redirect you away if you're in Firefox I think? Because I tried to visit it in Firefox on my phone and it instantly redirected me to the about:blank page, but when I opened it in Chromium (also on my phone) it didn't. But I agree, I'm going to skim what he has to say, but the childish and arbitrary redirect thing is not leaving a good first impression at fucking all. Edit: it's not Firefox. It's if you're coming from Hacker News. Copying and pasting the link into a new tab instead of clicking on the link gets through. Interesting.

macguyvermectin 3y ago
This is how he does it. https://starbreaker.org/reject.js https://starbreaker.org/reject.js All I had to do was right-click and select "view source"? It's not like he minifies his HTML to hell and back like people do on commercial sites, but maybe his build step is mangling his <script> element. That might be why it's only working on Firefox. Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/ https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish.
- logicprog 3y ago
  > Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/ https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish. I read that and, you know what, fair enough, honestly, heck, look at my profile description — I actually agree with his assessment of Hacker News as a whole (the cryptofascist pseudointellectual groupthink here is incredible, I actually almost quit this site entirely several times in frustration over it). Although it is frustrating to be lumped in with the rest of you when I'm only here because this is the only relatively interesting tech headline aggregator.

macguyvermectin 3y ago

This is how he does it. https://starbreaker.org/reject.js https://starbreaker.org/reject.js All I had to do was right-click and select "view source"? It's not like he minifies his HTML to hell and back like people do on commercial sites, but maybe his build step is mangling his <script> element. That might be why it's only working on Firefox. Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/ https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish.

logicprog 3y ago
> Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/ https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish. I read that and, you know what, fair enough, honestly, heck, look at my profile description — I actually agree with his assessment of Hacker News as a whole (the cryptofascist pseudointellectual groupthink here is incredible, I actually almost quit this site entirely several times in frustration over it). Although it is frustrating to be lumped in with the rest of you when I'm only here because this is the only relatively interesting tech headline aggregator.