I 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/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.
Thanks. 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)
Text 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.
I 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/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.
Thanks. 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)
Text 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.
> Do you routinely look at the DOM?
You don't?
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reading other comments, I noticed that this was a legitimate question.
Are 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.
I do. Then again, I’m a web developer so looking at the DOM is my day job.
The extension injects its ”gimme money” elements even on localhost pages.