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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?

[–] griD@feddit.de 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

some explanation

To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing

Yeah let me turn off the adblocker just for having an even more suboptimal viewing due to ads. They're lunatics.

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the explainer! Also, Google's response is such a crock of shit.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can build a virtual machine in JavaScript and execute compiled code on it

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just because you can...

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, you shouldn't. But people do this for fingerprinting, bot detection, and other "adversarial" scenarios where you really don't like the person executing your code. It's somewhat plausible Google would use this technique to do something scummy like this (although that is not the case).

Relevant article and a great read: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1