The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block “View Source”

Posted by Tomte on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:12AM
from the nitter.net dept.

https://nitter.net/kvz/status/1458716279670554635

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Re:The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block... by tschwimmer on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:00AM (#29189375)

This is incorrect - it's an option to block block at the machine level, geared towards school computers and the like.

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Re:The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block... by remram on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:15AM (#29189587)

It seems to be a bugfix. There was already a way to block specific URLs on a machine, but it didn't correctly block the `view-source:` scheme.

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Re:The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block... by ludocode on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:16AM (#29189611)

Why would school computers want to block View Source? Shouldn't they be encouraging students to use the debugging tools?

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Re:The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block... by zto on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:20AM (#29189666)

A possible consideration is older quiz/testing sites that pass along enough hints in HTML source code/CSS styling that identify correct answers prior to actually sending responses back for evaluation.

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