The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block “View Source” (nitter.net) 12 points by Tomte 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] tschwimmer 4y ago ↗ This is incorrect - it's an option to block block at the machine level, geared towards school computers and the like. [–] remram 4y ago ↗ It seems to be a bugfix. There was already a way to block specific URLs on a machine, but it didn't correctly block the `view-source:` scheme. [–] ludocode 4y ago ↗ Why would school computers want to block View Source? Shouldn't they be encouraging students to use the debugging tools? [–] zto 4y ago ↗ A possible consideration is older quiz/testing sites that pass along enough hints in HTML source code/CSS styling that identify correct answers prior to actually sending responses back for evaluation.
[–] remram 4y ago ↗ It seems to be a bugfix. There was already a way to block specific URLs on a machine, but it didn't correctly block the `view-source:` scheme.
[–] ludocode 4y ago ↗ Why would school computers want to block View Source? Shouldn't they be encouraging students to use the debugging tools? [–] zto 4y ago ↗ A possible consideration is older quiz/testing sites that pass along enough hints in HTML source code/CSS styling that identify correct answers prior to actually sending responses back for evaluation.
[–] zto 4y ago ↗ A possible consideration is older quiz/testing sites that pass along enough hints in HTML source code/CSS styling that identify correct answers prior to actually sending responses back for evaluation.
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