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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by arionmiles on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:19PM (#46439343)
there's something seriously wrong with this archived link. It's not staying still for one moment. It's constantly twitching and the text scrolls to weird positions. It's unreadable because of this.

Is it the archive at fault or is the original webpage this way?

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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by kencausey on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:25PM (#46439410)
It constantly reloads for me (Firefox.) Just hit X which replaces the reload button while the page is loading and it will stop.
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by quesera on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:27PM (#46439440)
Disable JavaScript, reason #99e99.

Works for me here, and in 90% of the cases where someone complains of annoying page behaviour (cookie banners, revenue optimizations, subscription solicitations, "click here to ...", paywalls, ads, et alii ad nauseam).

Seriously, just disable JavaScript on unknown/untrusted/undeserving sites. It makes the web tolerable.

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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by arionmiles on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:09PM (#46440180)
ah well... this is a first for me where I need to disable JS. Thanks!
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by golem14 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:30PM (#46441275)
Is there actually a whitelist of sites where it's OK/necessary to enable JS ? I'd love to use that (although, I don't know how to load that list into safari or chrome.)
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by nilslindemann on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:35AM (#46443592)
Why use a whitelist from someone else, I disable it manually per page by using something like https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher, but there are more of those in the chrome webstore.
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