Many years ago the agency I worked for was tasked with delivering a new website for a major UK brand. The hipster London marketing agency we had to work alongside pushed so many garish ideas that I ended up creating a jQuery plugin called "disco mode". It set a timer and on every tick would select a random element on the page and apply a random effect. Slowly the UI would disintegrate into a maddening, incoherent mess of clashing colours and animations, and then there was also the plugin I mentioned.
I somehow missed seeing this before and kinda love it.
xp84 15 hours ago [-]
> and then there was also the plugin I mentioned.
This was brilliant and savage.
FuckButtons 14 hours ago [-]
Sounds like Nathan barley.
thom 13 hours ago [-]
We were all self-facilitating media nodes back then.
trollied 9 hours ago [-]
You've just reminded me NTK was a thing.
Aissen 14 hours ago [-]
Google safebrowsing blocked it, so it does not work in Firefox anymore (and any other browser); after ignoring the warning, it's clear that there are ample warnings on the website itself about this being a parody, not to enter sensitive information, etc. I reported it as "not deceptive".
nulbyte 9 hours ago [-]
I also reported it safe, as it is still there hours later. There is apparently no way to turn off the use of safe browsing in Firefox for Android, which is disconcerting. So I blocked safebrowsing.googleapis.com. After that, clearing the app's cache did the trick for me.
Has two IPs in 'free' DNS which were giving a Vercel 'deployment gone' message moments ago.
docmars 5 hours ago [-]
I kind of hate that this is even possible. People should be able to bypass something like this on their own accord if they so choose.
V__ 5 hours ago [-]
You can. The link to "ignore the risks and proceed" is inside the paragraph and not a button at the bottom.
mantra2 6 hours ago [-]
Yep, Safari blocked it as well.
kevinwuhoo 23 hours ago [-]
This reminds me of the Katamari Hack back in the day when bookmarklets were more popular. Surprised that it's still fully functional including the music considering it was released in 2011!
Incredible. Plays music and generates a snowball that absorbs page contents as one touches/clicks around a webpage.
joshstrange 21 hours ago [-]
Unfortunately only on HTTP sites since the assets aren't served over HTTPS. Though thankfully it's easy enough to grab the resources and re-host them behind HTTP.
And, of course, you can test it out on that website since it's served over HTTP.
Wow I just had a faint memory of this the other week! In particular, one of the stamps is a rabbit that I had the faintest memory of. Just did some digging and turns out it was from here: http://www.gemtree.com/
Chrome blocking this site, marked as "Dangerous site".
ddeck 17 hours ago [-]
Firefox via "Google Safe Browsing" also:
>Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards.
>Advisory provided by Google Safe Browsing.
jshchnz 17 hours ago [-]
unfortunately google marked it as "unsafe", I assume because I have a feature that is supposed to simulate popup ads
i've requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted :(
rezonant 16 hours ago [-]
No no, I assume it's because it impersonates Hacker News, a popular website. The Details even says this: it thinks you are trying to phish for hackernews sign ins.
Probably not much you can do about it
going_north 14 hours ago [-]
I clicked through all of the Chrome and Google warnings, but now even my national ISP has blocked the site.
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keepamovin 17 hours ago [-]
Lol - the fact that chrome and safari both mark this site as "Dangerous" is even better. When HN is destructing under fire and insects, chrome is showing a big red "Dangerous" in the address bar. Hilarious
n2d4 16 hours ago [-]
For anyone curious, it's not actually dangerous and you can safely click it. You'll immediately see why it'd think it's dangerous, though.
Are these available as an npm package? Would make for a great April Fools prank
ycombinatrix 22 hours ago [-]
The insects are great. Would love if I could burn them like other page elements.
ivape 24 hours ago [-]
It would be great if he put those around all the ads so we could visually see the infestation.
gizajob 12 hours ago [-]
Its so effective that after clicking through the warning I get nothing but a black screen on MacOS Safari and Chrome, and the same on Safari on iPhone.
This is like a lightweight version of netdisaster.com
tonymet 22 hours ago [-]
funny, when I loaded Ticketmaster, nothing happened...
jshchnz 22 hours ago [-]
ugh yeah, seems like they have some over the top security stuff to prevent this. saw this with a lot of financial sites too. probably ways around it but probably not worth the time for a fun project like this :)
ycombinatrix 22 hours ago [-]
This project seems to be using Chrome to load the pages through Puppeteer.
Ticketmaster can easily check `if(navigator.webdriver)` before loading the page. I don't think that can be fixed without recompiling the browser. thank you Google, very cool.
PS: after posting the link I saw at least one other comment did this, so the feeling seems widespread.
jdkdbrnrnrb 19 hours ago [-]
The bugs remind me of "A Scanner Darkly"
nurettin 16 hours ago [-]
I wanted to show this to a kid, but it sounds too vulgar.
Ylpertnodi 12 hours ago [-]
Kid wanted to show it to you. But thinks you're a prude.
Point taken, though. I live in a country where english lyrics aren't censored on the radio. I love it, but it's occasionally been awkward as three kids are growing up.
tamimio 18 hours ago [-]
I guess it’s not working anymore? I had an error
jshchnz 18 hours ago [-]
ugh yeah this just happened, chrome marked it as "unsafe", I assume because I have a feature that is supposed to simulate popup ads
i requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted
georgemcbay 18 hours ago [-]
I doubt the review will succeed, mimicking other sites is explicitly one of the criteria they mark unsafe for.
Like I know this is just a joke site not meant to trick people, but it still runs afoul of google's unsafe website criteria by being a site whose sole purpose is being a MITM.
jshchnz 18 hours ago [-]
yeah i kind of doubt it too, but i'm hoping they have some review process for parody. it's a bummer it didn't even get a day of life :(
georgemcbay 18 hours ago [-]
it might help to have an obvious/thick window decoration around the pane of the site you are cloning, similar to the large header archive.is shows to make it more clear you aren't trying to fool anyone.
Though with a google review who knows if a human will ever even see your appeal...?
thangngoc89 18 hours ago [-]
That's part of the experience. I guess?
georgemcbay 18 hours ago [-]
Chrome flags it as a dangerous site and blocks it by default for me.
itvision 9 hours ago [-]
Completely breaks on opennet.ru
1. Breaks text
2. Cannot fuck up anything
superkuh 19 hours ago [-]
Back in the 90s/early-2000s there were browser add-ons where people could collaboratively do this as an overlay to any website. Kind of like stumbleupon 10 years early but you just shot/exploded/disintegrated, etc the html elements of the site and typed comments to each other.
burnt-resistor 20 hours ago [-]
Hahaha. :D
I remember in the 90's-00's there was Windows desktop software toy that did similar to this with options for missiles, fire, etc.
Examples:
Stress Reducers (2000)
Monty Python's Looney Bin (1998) (I could be wrong)
doesn't seems like a false positive, so beware
Mods please remove this and ban the user
junon 11 hours ago [-]
It's because it's parody, it's almost definitely a false positive.
docsaintly 22 hours ago [-]
I wish fewer sites would resort to 4 letter words in their titles to grab attention. These days, a title like this makes me assume the product itself is not interesting enough for me to look at.
ycombinatrix 22 hours ago [-]
to be fair, it is a funny meme website, not a product.
I get the draw, and it's amusing, and it works; but I come here for tech topics - not clickbait. It's always nice to see the -1's to remind me that I'm barely a fit for this site! :D
This was brilliant and savage.
Has two IPs in 'free' DNS which were giving a Vercel 'deployment gone' message moments ago.
[1]: http://kathack.com/
And, of course, you can test it out on that website since it's served over HTTP.
https://imgur.com/bEHm3GP
>Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards.
>Advisory provided by Google Safe Browsing.
i've requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted :(
Probably not much you can do about it
Are these available as an npm package? Would make for a great April Fools prank
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews....
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.com&to...
Ticketmaster can easily check `if(navigator.webdriver)` before loading the page. I don't think that can be fixed without recompiling the browser. thank you Google, very cool.
EDIT: actually, the following flag might work?
--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fuckupmy...
Don't know whether this is failure or resilience.
The easter egg looks quite cool :)
Government sites are blocked for security reasons.
FuckUpMySite is for PARODY and ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews....
PS: after posting the link I saw at least one other comment did this, so the feeling seems widespread.
i requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted
Like I know this is just a joke site not meant to trick people, but it still runs afoul of google's unsafe website criteria by being a site whose sole purpose is being a MITM.
Though with a google review who knows if a human will ever even see your appeal...?
1. Breaks text 2. Cannot fuck up anything
I remember in the 90's-00's there was Windows desktop software toy that did similar to this with options for missiles, fire, etc.
Examples:
Stress Reducers (2000)
Monty Python's Looney Bin (1998) (I could be wrong)
Dilbert's Desktop Games (1997)
Seems to be an easter egg
THIS WEBSITE HAS VIRUS (PHISHING ATTACK)
doesn't seems like a false positive, so beware Mods please remove this and ban the user
to me, it's giving "just fuck me up" vibes https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-barber