I wonder why they decided to go with the specific language order that the messages appear in on the new page. First English is shown, which makes sense as it’s the most widely spoken language in the world. But then Arabic appears, which has far fewer speakers than e.g. Spanish or Mandarin. French and Russian are also shown before the Spanish message finally shows up. Perhaps I’m reading into the details too much, but this seems somewhat biased to me.
It reminds me of the “Hello” message that appears after (re-)installing iOS, which also cycles through different languages, but there the order is at least randomized iirc.
It does use the same order as the page you link to apart from English coming first, but where does that come from. It strikes me that it is alphabetic order in English if you call Mandarin Chinese.
Maybe stupid to point out on my part, but it HAS to be in a order. There's definitely a version of this that's just "the order we wrote it down" https://xkcd.com/221/
Though I think you're right that it's alphabetical by English name: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
Actually, they get a smaller first response for simple GET-Requests, because the Javascript will not be served. It will only be loaded and served by proper browsers loading the page.
> 1. Why does neverssl.com use Javascript to redirect to a random subdomain?
> Over the last year users reported that some networks aggressively cache the fake DNS and pages they use for wifi capture. Neverssl.com now works around this generating a request to a random subdomain - this will bust any DNS cache, and any HTTP cache. It also means that if your browser or ISP caches the Neverssl.com page itself, that's fine.
I like to use logon.com which for some reason occasionally routes to the login page of a captive portal. Why a method to get back to it hasn't been unified is beyond me. (Cue xkcd on standards)
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 54.9 ms ] threadHi,
I noticed that the content on https://example.com has been updated!
Can you share any context on the changes and who worked on them?
I work at Google - would I be able to share your answer on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@ChromeDevs) or on my own personal social media?
I haven't spoken to my team so just asking in a personal capacity at this point, but maybe it could make a fun video!
Thanks, Oliver
It reminds me of the “Hello” message that appears after (re-)installing iOS, which also cycles through different languages, but there the order is at least randomized iirc.
[0]: https://www.un.org/
It does use the same order as the page you link to apart from English coming first, but where does that come from. It strikes me that it is alphabetic order in English if you call Mandarin Chinese.
Though I think you're right that it's alphabetical by English name: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
This is followed here: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish.
https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems/
Or indeed the classic:
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
It's an example. It should be exemplary, in size and in simplicity.
(It's got Google Analytics)
> the domain isn't intended to be a general purpose endpoint for things like availability testing so we do not encourage that kind of usage
An https URL. I assume this is some sort of joke.
If it does lead to an HTTPS page, I believe that only happens when your browser tries HTTPS before HTTP (if it tries HTTP at all).
The irony has not gone unnoticed: https://twitter.com/NeverSSL/status/1456310362551164928
> 1. Why does neverssl.com use Javascript to redirect to a random subdomain?
> Over the last year users reported that some networks aggressively cache the fake DNS and pages they use for wifi capture. Neverssl.com now works around this generating a request to a random subdomain - this will bust any DNS cache, and any HTTP cache. It also means that if your browser or ISP caches the Neverssl.com page itself, that's fine.