PNG files can be animated via network latency

Re:PNG files can be animated via network latency by cooljacob204 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#27608063)

I have seen a few overlay empty divs over an image/video. Very frustrating behavior.

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Re:PNG files can be animated via network latency by duskwuff on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:23PM (#27608104)

That's hardly new, though. Flickr has been doing that for ages.

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Re:PNG files can be animated via network latency by jrockway on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:49PM (#27608454)

I've kind of expected that you have to open the DOM inspector to find image links these days. Not sure what they think they're protecting, but the protection doesn't work.

(Reminds me of sites that disable pasting in passwords from your password manager, so you have to have xdotool type them for you. Again, not sure what they think they're saving me from. And I'm not sure why browsers have APIs that allow this sort of thing.)

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Re:PNG files can be animated via network latency by gempir on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:26AM (#27614543)

The protection is not against people like you. It's for the average joe.

Knowing how to use the dev tools makes you like a 1% in the world. And blocking out 99% with a simple div or something is a pretty good ROI

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Re:PNG files can be animated via network latency by fomine3 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:43AM (#27627509)

Such simple protection works even for developers if they use smartphone because navigating DevTools on smartphone is complex task.

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