[HN Gopher] The Curious Case of the Y Combinator Bookmarklet
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The Curious Case of the Y Combinator Bookmarklet
Author : pilingual
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-03-28 17:52 UTC (5 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (dan.bulwinkle.net)
| Tomte wrote:
| I still don't understand why HN doesn't want to blacklist
| submissions of the bookmarklet[1]. Especially since it happens
| all the time.
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| [1] yes, I've asked.
| etrabroline wrote:
| Sounds like work. Running hackernews is already a lot of work.
| Not every good idea rises to the level of someone taking the
| time to actually do it right away. Updating the bookmarklet
| would probably be easier and superior at this point thanks to
| the authors work.
| firloop wrote:
| "At some point these links were simply automatically marked
| dead whenever submitted."
|
| Practically speaking, it sounds like the links are blacklisted.
| Turing_Machine wrote:
| Aha! Thanks for the investigation. I have also been wondering
| about that for some time now.
| Normille wrote:
| This has puzzled me for a long time too. Now I know!
| cblconfederate wrote:
| It's probably bots
| gabrielsroka wrote:
| The way I usually solve this is to have the bookmarklet itself
| check if the user is on the "install" page and let them know how
| to install the bookmarklet. if (location ==
| 'https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html') alert(...
| dang wrote:
| Ok, I've added the suggested fix. Thanks!
| onclick="return false"
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