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by fyarebox 11y ago
Wow. This could be another user re-creating the account to create drama, though. Is the rest of the profile info (favorite line of code, etc.) the same? I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move th
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by fyarebox 11y ago
Lazer is shown as 'Available' on their registration form, FYI. Thanks for sharing your story - I think a lot of people who have been following this thread can't believe what's unfolded. I hope your feline friend continue
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by fyarebox 11y ago
I'm amazed. Michael, if you're reading this - get someone else to handle this situation. Anyone, even it's just the guy who does SEO. Your company has appeared on HN before, and as a YC-backed company you should probably have
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by fyarebox 11y ago
The issue with this is updates. In most of these cases with malicious addons, the addon was safe initially, then the author slips in some tracking code / spyware etc. at a later date. While I might inspect a source for a single sketchy
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by fyarebox 11y ago
Firefox currently* shows a red warning in the console, but still loads normally. I can't press F12 on any half-popular site, including most of Google, without seeing that wall of red. I assume something similar will happen from Chrome.
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by fyarebox 11y ago
They already are, inserting a alert(). What would be much more interesting is replacing <body> with a multi-lingual message explaining what's happening and how to block the Baidu script.
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by fyarebox 12y ago
Just coming up on four months, here. Enter!g in your query to automatically redirect it to Google. I do this for about 50% of my searches (mainly looking for docs) !yt for youtube is useful too, as is just ! for I'm Feeling Lucky and
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by fyarebox 12y ago
I'll expand on this with my understanding. Library - a collection of useful things. Framework - a collection of things, and a methodology, used to structure your application. In general, a lot of new, modern frameworks do 'call yo
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