There is some kind of childish “i dont like you, go away” redirect on this. I’ve no idea what attribute it’s based on but this seems like a pretty good reason not to read whatever such child has to say.
It seems to redirect you away if you're in Firefox I think? Because I tried to visit it in Firefox on my phone and it instantly redirected me to the about:blank page, but when I opened it in Chromium (also on my phone) it didn't. But I agree, I'm going to skim what he has to say, but the childish and arbitrary redirect thing is not leaving a good first impression at fucking all.
Edit: it's not Firefox. It's if you're coming from Hacker News. Copying and pasting the link into a new tab instead of clicking on the link gets through. Interesting.
All I had to do was right-click and select "view source"? It's not like he minifies his HTML to hell and back like people do on commercial sites, but maybe his build step is mangling his <script> element. That might be why it's only working on Firefox.
Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish.
> Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish.
I read that and, you know what, fair enough, honestly, heck, look at my profile description — I actually agree with his assessment of Hacker News as a whole (the cryptofascist pseudointellectual groupthink here is incredible, I actually almost quit this site entirely several times in frustration over it). Although it is frustrating to be lumped in with the rest of you when I'm only here because this is the only relatively interesting tech headline aggregator.
Not really changing my opinion that they're just being childish, to be honest.
The ddos argument doesn't hold any water either because they don't actually refuse connections with a referrer from the offensive sites - I guess because that would prevent showing a little JavaScript alert box to make the full weight of petulance known.
This person could have just ignored that any of the offending platforms exist, and optionally blocked their referred users from making connections at all if so desired.
The best part is that they complain we aren't discussing the original article's content... you know, the article we can't read without jumping through a hoop.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 38.5 ms ] threadEdit: it's not Firefox. It's if you're coming from Hacker News. Copying and pasting the link into a new tab instead of clicking on the link gets through. Interesting.
https://starbreaker.org/reject.js
All I had to do was right-click and select "view source"? It's not like he minifies his HTML to hell and back like people do on commercial sites, but maybe his build step is mangling his <script> element. That might be why it's only working on Firefox.
Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in <https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/>. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish.
I read that and, you know what, fair enough, honestly, heck, look at my profile description — I actually agree with his assessment of Hacker News as a whole (the cryptofascist pseudointellectual groupthink here is incredible, I actually almost quit this site entirely several times in frustration over it). Although it is frustrating to be lumped in with the rest of you when I'm only here because this is the only relatively interesting tech headline aggregator.
The ddos argument doesn't hold any water either because they don't actually refuse connections with a referrer from the offensive sites - I guess because that would prevent showing a little JavaScript alert box to make the full weight of petulance known.
This person could have just ignored that any of the offending platforms exist, and optionally blocked their referred users from making connections at all if so desired.
The best part is that they complain we aren't discussing the original article's content... you know, the article we can't read without jumping through a hoop.