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Comment by 8-prime

5 hours ago

Not only 'pocket computers' are an issue. I was thoroughly shocked when I found out that websites can detect that the dev-tools are open. That is something that a website should never be able to know, yet here we are.

I ran into a government site that not only was aware of the devtools being open, but also stopped virtually all user actions if it did. And it worked quite well- to bypass it, I had to block the detection script from loading altogether since merely removing the event listener didn't work.

  • I ran into a different site where every single action had a debug breakpoint pausing everything if you had devtools open. Luckily, you can disable breakpoints.