Forgive me if I wait for more concrete evidence than the word of a guy who refuses to cite his sources because he thinks Twitch is in collusion with the US Government and he may be thrown in jail or disappeared for doing a write up on some publicly available source code.
The duck did I just read, some AI is attempting SEO or something?
What an absolute garbage statement devoid of any proof nor tbh technical possibility to implement.
MostlyJustBored's account 3 weeks old with no history. We should take whatever that guy says with a grain of salt.
The whole salt cellar.
The whole salt flat *
Agreed.
Maybe you should update your post to reflect that, because right now it's kinda clickbaity
Is “new” good enough?
No
Suggestions?
Take down the unhinged ramblings?
It’s interesting
Watching others suffer from mental illness isn't "interesting."
Nothing’s confirmed yet, plus I posted this with the interest of having someone knowledgeable try and verify the accusations.
Oh! Good news: it's total lunacy, as also indicated by others.
But if that was really your intent, maybe the title should be "Is this real or not?" instead of some clickbaity junk
I’m pretty sure “claim” and “new” already tell you “is this real or not”.
"Unhinged amateur who can only read function names overreacts to some boring JavaScript" would be more accurate.
Like I said, unhinged.
I doubt it’s just SEO… The fact that his first attempt at the comment was deleted by uBlock’s team and that his claim to be the developer of a now pulled Twitch adblock extension makes this interesting
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That is, they claim to be. While I don’t know much JavaScript, someone below claims it’s not valid JavaScript
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network sniffing
This is only worth paying attention to if someone can say how they not only escaped the browser sandbox but then called native, privileged code. Javascript running in the browser cannot just do that.
Schizo post?
If this was true, we would have much bigger problems than twitch. The dude determined twitch was spying on you based on function names (allegedly)
What network requests can it sniff? Shouldn't this be a browser security bug?
This is what it feels like to interact with the Linux/opensource/selfhost people sometimes.
"bUt ThEy CaN wAtCh YoU!!1!"
I mean they can watch and monitor your activity on their website, and are probably partnered with many other websites to collate data on your interests and beliefs to feed into a chunky advertising algorithm sooooo...
But you didn't want to hear that, did you?
We all know that to a degree, but do you really think they're in collusion with the US government to jail anyone who mentions it?
I also don't think the dude gave anywhere near enough information to explain why search engines and browsers should be blocking access to Twitch. They made a lot of claims, but no proof.
Yeah. Just to clarify, I didn't mean to try to validate conspiracy theories like these and wasn't suggesting that this guy is right, but that it's wrong to ignore the large amount of data that closed source applications oftentimes do collect on you.
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