Comment by fishbacon
8 hours ago
The pop-up is about disabling javascript, to avoid this kind of website doing this kind of thing.
I thought it was clever. But it also seems ham-fisted, and in poor taste.
8 hours ago
The pop-up is about disabling javascript, to avoid this kind of website doing this kind of thing.
I thought it was clever. But it also seems ham-fisted, and in poor taste.
The author also maintains https://disable-javascript.org/, which the pop-up links to. And has the exact script + titles used.
> You may want to consider linking to this site, to educate any script-enabled users on how to disable JavaScript in some of the most commonly used browsers. The following code uses scare tactics to do so.
> When added to your website, it will change the icon and the title of your website's tab to some of the most unhinged things imaginable once the user sends your tab to the background. Upon re-activation, the script will display a popover to the user informing them about the joke and referring them to this initiative.
It's not clever when people use HN at work. It's a complete erosion of user trust and could legitimately get someone fired. You think HR wants to hear oh no it was an object lesson in not using javascript. That's why I was searching for nudes on the work computer when I shared my screen at that meeting, not realizing some moron had programmatically changed the tab name when I clicked off. This domain needs banned. It's not operating in good faith, or in touch with the reality of the damage it could be doing.