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The available API's on the web are very questionable. Feross has a web security lecture series on youtube where he showed off the following abomination. Enter at own risk.

https://theannoyingsite.com/

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warning, this is really annoying. imagine you're infected with a ton of adware in the early 2000s you will be logged out of many accounts

here's someone testing it out on Windows a few years ago, but I assure you even in the latest chrome on mac, it's at least as bad https://youtu.be/estvbRSj4LU?si=gq6-l4pWLC9yXqap&t=109

Why would you keep minimizing things instead of closing them? The video just looks like one of those meant to frustrate the viewer into wanting to do it themselves. I blame the creator of that video as much as the site itself. The site itself served a purpose. The person running that video has a much less clear motive

I think if you close a window, another pops up. Or two.

You should go to this site and test this.

It spawned an app outside of the browser. That's the window being minimized that I meant. I'm not an unawares person to the site's purpose. You're being a bit disingenuous with your reading of my comment

I tried it on Safari private window. It was absolutely horrible. I hesitate to guess what would have happened if I didn't keep clicking cancel whenever it asked if I wanted to allow downloads, etc.

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

    https://theannoyingsite.com/

Because of the following filter:

    ||theannoyingsite.com^$document

Found in:

    uBlock filters – Badware risks

It’s not malware, I promise. Just super annoying :)

Source code: https://github.com/feross/TheAnnoyingSite.

It lived up to its name for sure!!

holy shit, I was not expecting that LOL

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