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well yeah, but why would they want to block out the "orange website"?

bryanlarsen 5y ago
I don't think "screw with" means "block" in this case. But there is one moderately famous blog that does block HN: https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.jwz.org/
- wanderingjew 5y ago
  yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
  - shakna 5y ago
    HN helpfully uses the referrer, so you can easily do it with a tiny bit of JS: <script> if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") { // Mess with HN users here... } </script>
    - vidarh 5y ago
      View source on the linked website just now: 
  - Beltalowda 5y ago
    if (document.referrer === 'https://news.ycombinator.com/') window.location = 'https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png' Or something along those lines should work.
  - bryanlarsen 5y ago
    JWZ appears to use Apache, so he probably does something like http://www.htaccess-guide.com/deny-visitors-by-referrer/ http://www.htaccess-guide.com/deny-visitors-by-referrer/
    - numpad0 5y ago
      That is the way it was done back in the day, usually when admin wanted guests to not come through Google Search or to come through a correct word-of-mouth bouncer page. Client side JS implementations allow content to be viewed by blocking JS.
  - demindiro 5y ago
    He checks the Referer header[1]. In Firefox you can prevent that header from being sent by setting `network.http.sendRefererHeader` to 0 (in about:config). [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
Aissen 5y ago
They're not blocking it out, they are protesting the weird, variable, "original title" policy. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't think "screw with" means "block" in this case. But there is one moderately famous blog that does block HN: https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.jwz.org/

wanderingjew 5y ago
yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
- shakna 5y ago
  HN helpfully uses the referrer, so you can easily do it with a tiny bit of JS: <script> if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") { // Mess with HN users here... } </script>
  - vidarh 5y ago
    View source on the linked website just now: 
- Beltalowda 5y ago
  if (document.referrer === 'https://news.ycombinator.com/') window.location = 'https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png' Or something along those lines should work.
- bryanlarsen 5y ago
  JWZ appears to use Apache, so he probably does something like http://www.htaccess-guide.com/deny-visitors-by-referrer/ http://www.htaccess-guide.com/deny-visitors-by-referrer/
  - numpad0 5y ago
    That is the way it was done back in the day, usually when admin wanted guests to not come through Google Search or to come through a correct word-of-mouth bouncer page. Client side JS implementations allow content to be viewed by blocking JS.
- demindiro 5y ago
  He checks the Referer header[1]. In Firefox you can prevent that header from being sent by setting `network.http.sendRefererHeader` to 0 (in about:config). [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

Aissen 5y ago

They're not blocking it out, they are protesting the weird, variable, "original title" policy. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html