Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Lol, is it just an onclosed function call?!
I myself haven't seen any age verification popups yet, due to me always being on a VPN, but I admire you for writing the bypass and making it open source.
I hope this continues to work, but seeing how dystopian the surveillance is getting, I won't be surprised if everything is handled in the backend in the near future (client <-> server, client <-> verification provider, server <-> verification provider); sort of like how payments are handled.
@TheDarkQuark if they change it, then all of the websites using it will also have to change their code. But I don't think they will change it unless the extension goes crazy viral, they won't bother imo
Hosted on github, which is owned by Micro$lop. One of the companies who are pushing this age verifying crap (and has ties with Peter Thiel). Is it a good idea to host it there?
Congratulations, you've made the first "must-have" extension to get added to my list in years
Can't this just be a filter in uBlock Origin? What does this do that is special that uBlock Origin can't do?
Curious to know this as well. I think it’s possible, but I myself am not capable of writing the filter.
@bamboo I dont't think so? I'm not sure how uBO filters works but the popup file is supposed to send an event to the main page to let it know that the verification is done and I don't think uBO filters can do that
In your experience do sites fail open or closed if the JavaScript from the third party not load? Like will the site wait for the event of the JavaScript library is never requested or loaded?
@bamboo Not sure if that's exactly what you mean but each site can set up the age verification by loading a script and adding event callbacks, like redirect_url to set an URL to be redirected to once the verification is over, and onclosed which occurs when the verification is successful, and where the site can set some code to run.
So if you just block the popup, it never appears and can never fire onclose and the code that happens after will never run.
Since sites are often minified and obfuscated, and the call for the popup can come from any file, I just replaced the response to requests to the popup URL, to have my own script that fires the event and/or redirects to the page, so that it works every time.
I think the only way to counter this is, if they change the URL (I can later update it too, or if a website hosts their own version of the file (so it will be at a different URL and be undetected). But all of these have easy workarounds as well.
And of course a furry.
Is always a furry that save humanity.
doing the lords work
@helloyanis@furries.club is it librewolf compatible?
@helloyanis@furries.club thanks so much!
G-d bless our furry savior!
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