• kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        they’re using the css :visited attribute on a link to a HN thread to display the message.

        having passively followed asahi for some time (too poor to own a mac to actually try it out) the fact that they have to resort to shit like this is gross, but i 100% put the blame on HN for being an unmoderated trashfire (and explicitly bypassing the referrer based blocking asahi first had instead of, idk, actually moderating their site)

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          1 year ago

          Thank you! Like is this kind of corny behavior? Sure, but maybe if HN wasn’t full of shitty people being actively enabled by a lack of moderation they wouldn’t have to try to do shit like this.

      • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        According to the dev on Mastoson, it was DarkReader messing with their color math detection on a HN link’s :visited tag.