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Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by ffe44 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:42PM (#21580910)
Ha. Last time I wanted to buy something on Amazon, their search page kept freezing every time I load it: 100% CPU load. Because I really wanted to buy that thing, I spent 30 mins debugging their silly scripts and found one for-loop that tries to find a non-existent element. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out a way to enable my fix in a minified script, as reloading the page kept loading the original script.
Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by edoloughlin on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:06AM (#21582534)
Put a breakpoint on the offending line, manually add the element when it breaks, hit resume and hope for the best?
Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by mcdevilkiller on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:05AM (#21582527)
Whit uMatrix, you could have created a rule to block that script.
Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by giardini on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:58AM (#21584976)
Turn off Javascript - Amazon still works OK.