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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by jensv on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:07AM (#17346197)
Kind of an odd error message.

" Looks like you are offline

You'll need to check back here once you have restored your connection. Thanks for your patience. "

But you're clearly online if you can see the error message....

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by swsieber on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:22AM (#17346317)
I think Web workers can actually do that if you've visited the site once before, even if you can't connect now.
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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by vanadium on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:39AM (#17347074)
Service Workers, probably.
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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by swsieber on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:28PM (#17349136)
Doh, you are right. That's what I was thinking of.
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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by tejtm on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:41AM (#17347686)
you are not accepting third party cookies/javascript so for their purposes you may as well not exist, a condition I have zero qualms complying with by leaving.
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