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Re:Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities by pwg on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:04PM (#15518380)
I have NoScript running in default deny mode, I saw blank white boxes where these animated gifs should have been. The rest of the article was fully readable, with no animation distractions.
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Re:Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities by mwrouse on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:32AM (#15521386)
Why would noscript block a gif...? I'm going to have to take a closer look at how this website places the gifs there.
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Re:Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities by PhasmaFelis on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:20AM (#15521635)
There's quite a lot of news sites whose in-line static JPGs all vanish with NoScript. I really have no idea what people think they're doing these days.
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Re:Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities by qkls on Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:58AM (#15521853)
They use a static thumbnail image that is changed to a gif/webm when it loads.
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Re:Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities by pwg on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:13PM (#15556093)
Because the gif's are not included using basic <img> tags, but instead they are inserted by javascript code. As to why, I don't know why.
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