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How did you "notice" a suspicious element in the inspector? Do you routinely look at the DOM?
by fg137 6mo ago
How did you "notice" a suspicious element in the inspector? Do you routinely look at the DOM?
- cluckindan 6mo agoThe extension injects its ”gimme money” elements even on localhost pages.
- ronsor 6mo ago> Do you routinely look at the DOM? You don't?
- explodes 6mo ago> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Reading other comments, I noticed that this was a legitimate question.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoAre you saying that [You don't?] is cross-examining/swipe, but [How did you "notice"] isn't? I wouldn't highly object to either but if I had to pick one I'd definitely clear the former.
- madeofpalk 6mo agoI do. Then again, I’m a web developer so looking at the DOM is my day job.
- dgb23 6mo agoI just imagined that this was an exclusive statement. „What do you do all day?“ „Looking at the DOM. Currently there are too many divs, but the situation seems fine.“
- falcor84 6mo agoI was sure you're going to take it in the direction of the relevant xkcd [0], so was taken aback that you didn't end it with something like "but today the pattern of divs is all wrong". [0] https://xkcd.com/722/ https://xkcd.com/722/
- jkl5xx 6mo agoI did webdev for a long time, so yeah. If you want the story, I was looking into guix on asahi and ended up on https://www.asahi-guix.org/ https://www.asahi-guix.org/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.
- fg137 6mo agoThanks. Not sure what's with the downvotes. That was a genuine question. (I used to do a lot of web development and probably know dev tools better than most people here. However I almost never look at the DOM of a webpage I don't own)
- hn_throwaway_99 6mo agoText doesn't transmit tone well. FWIW I interpreted your comment as having somewhat accusatory intent, especially the scare-quoted "notice", for implying the author didn't just happen along his discovery and that he wasn't being fully truthful in his explanation of how he discovered this info.
- leptons 6mo agoI frequently look at the DOM of webpages, so that I can bend them to my will. There's always some things about practically all websites are frustrating. I fix that with custom CSS and/or Javascript that runs when I load specific sites that I use frequently. I can turn a cluttered site into a streamlined site for my needs. I also block a lot of ads, popups and other annoyances this way.
- duskdozer 6mo agoOh there's another. The web is so miserable nowadays, I waste so much time on this. You don't happen to open source your stuff do you?