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How to create a do-it-yourself ad blocker for a website that blocks regular adblockers.
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My brother has a website (https://spencerbeals.com, go buy some art!) which uses Wix. There's a product page view where you can see multiple images of a given piece and click to zoom in, but the gallery images are somehow lower resolution than the non-zoomed version, making for a pretty bad user experience. I couldn't find anyway to change this in the tool (or even any forums with people asking about this) but luckily we can fix it with Javascript.
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Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.
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A couple years back I built Uber Trip Stat's (now renamed to RideShare Trip Stats after a C&D from Uber), because I was interested in how much money I had spent on Uber over the last few years. Luckily Uber's web portal lets you see all your past rides, and it was fairly trivial to reverse the API through Chrome. The Chrome Extension just injects some javascript into the page, makes a few requests to get the entirety of your ride history
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