Many years ago the agency I worked for was tasked with delivering a new website for a major UK brand. The hipster London marketing agency we had to work alongside pushed so many garish ideas that I ended up creating a jQuery plugin called "disco mode". It set a timer and on every tick would select a random element on the page and apply a random effect. Slowly the UI would disintegrate into a maddening, incoherent mess of clashing colours and animations, and then there was also the plugin I mentioned.
I somehow missed seeing this before and kinda love it.
kevinwuhoo · 9h ago
This reminds me of the Katamari Hack back in the day when bookmarklets were more popular. Surprised that it's still fully functional including the music considering it was released in 2011!
Incredible. Plays music and generates a snowball that absorbs page contents as one touches/clicks around a webpage.
joshstrange · 7h ago
Unfortunately only on HTTP sites since the assets aren't served over HTTPS. Though thankfully it's easy enough to grab the resources and re-host them behind HTTP.
And, of course, you can test it out on that website since it's served over HTTP.
Wow I just had a faint memory of this the other week! In particular, one of the stamps is a rabbit that I had the faintest memory of. Just did some digging and turns out it was from here: http://www.gemtree.com/
johnisgood · 7h ago
Yes, I remember using it, call for my dad while I was hiding in my room, he could see that I broke my monitor. :D
AbraKdabra · 8h ago
I thought of this the instant I saw the OP, I remember being in school and causing chaos with this, great memories.
yogorenapan · 8h ago
Oh wow that brings back memories. I remember playing with this back in my middle school days
twapi · 3h ago
Chrome blocking this site, marked as "Dangerous site".
ddeck · 3h ago
Firefox via "Google Safe Browsing" also:
>Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards.
>Advisory provided by Google Safe Browsing.
jshchnz · 3h ago
unfortunately google marked it as "unsafe", I assume because I have a feature that is supposed to simulate popup ads
i've requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted :(
going_north · 30m ago
I clicked through all of the Chrome and Google warnings, but now even my national ISP has blocked the site.
rezonant · 2h ago
No no, I assume it's because it impersonates Hacker News, a popular website. The Details even says this: it thinks you are trying to phish for hackernews sign ins.
Probably not much you can do about it
keepamovin · 3h ago
Lol - the fact that chrome and safari both mark this site as "Dangerous" is even better. When HN is destructing under fire and insects, chrome is showing a big red "Dangerous" in the address bar. Hilarious
n2d4 · 2h ago
For anyone curious, it's not actually dangerous and you can safely click it. You'll immediately see why it'd think it's dangerous, though.
PS: after posting the link I saw at least one other comment did this, so the feeling seems widespread.
tamimio · 4h ago
I guess it’s not working anymore? I had an error
jshchnz · 4h ago
ugh yeah this just happened, chrome marked it as "unsafe", I assume because I have a feature that is supposed to simulate popup ads
i requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted
georgemcbay · 4h ago
I doubt the review will succeed, mimicking other sites is explicitly one of the criteria they mark unsafe for.
Like I know this is just a joke site not meant to trick people, but it still runs afoul of google's unsafe website criteria by being a site whose sole purpose is being a MITM.
jshchnz · 4h ago
yeah i kind of doubt it too, but i'm hoping they have some review process for parody. it's a bummer it didn't even get a day of life :(
georgemcbay · 4h ago
it might help to have an obvious/thick window decoration around the pane of the site you are cloning, similar to the large header archive.is shows to make it more clear you aren't trying to fool anyone.
Though with a google review who knows if a human will ever even see your appeal...?
thangngoc89 · 4h ago
That's part of the experience. I guess?
georgemcbay · 4h ago
Chrome flags it as a dangerous site and blocks it by default for me.
tonymet · 8h ago
funny, when I loaded Ticketmaster, nothing happened...
jshchnz · 8h ago
ugh yeah, seems like they have some over the top security stuff to prevent this. saw this with a lot of financial sites too. probably ways around it but probably not worth the time for a fun project like this :)
ycombinatrix · 7h ago
This project seems to be using Chrome to load the pages through Puppeteer.
Ticketmaster can easily check `if(navigator.webdriver)` before loading the page. I don't think that can be fixed without recompiling the browser. thank you Google, very cool.
EDIT: actually, the following flag might work?
--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
mensetmanusman · 6h ago
Sounds like a job for an AI layer
superkuh · 5h ago
Back in the 90s/early-2000s there were browser add-ons where people could collaboratively do this as an overlay to any website. Kind of like stumbleupon 10 years early but you just shot/exploded/disintegrated, etc the html elements of the site and typed comments to each other.
burnt-resistor · 6h ago
Hahaha. :D
I remember in the 90's-00's there was Windows desktop software toy that did similar to this with options for missiles, fire, etc.
Examples:
Stress Reducers (2000)
Monty Python's Looney Bin (1998) (I could be wrong)
I wish fewer sites would resort to 4 letter words in their titles to grab attention. These days, a title like this makes me assume the product itself is not interesting enough for me to look at.
ycombinatrix · 8h ago
to be fair, it is a funny meme website, not a product.
I get the draw, and it's amusing, and it works; but I come here for tech topics - not clickbait. It's always nice to see the -1's to remind me that I'm barely a fit for this site! :D
This was brilliant and savage.
[1]: http://kathack.com/
And, of course, you can test it out on that website since it's served over HTTP.
>Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards.
>Advisory provided by Google Safe Browsing.
i've requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted :(
Probably not much you can do about it
Are these available as an npm package? Would make for a great April Fools prank
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews....
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.com&to...
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fuckupmy...
Don't know whether this is failure or resilience.
Government sites are blocked for security reasons.
FuckUpMySite is for PARODY and ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews....
PS: after posting the link I saw at least one other comment did this, so the feeling seems widespread.
i requested a review from them, but no idea when that will actually be lifted
Like I know this is just a joke site not meant to trick people, but it still runs afoul of google's unsafe website criteria by being a site whose sole purpose is being a MITM.
Though with a google review who knows if a human will ever even see your appeal...?
Ticketmaster can easily check `if(navigator.webdriver)` before loading the page. I don't think that can be fixed without recompiling the browser. thank you Google, very cool.
EDIT: actually, the following flag might work?
--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
I remember in the 90's-00's there was Windows desktop software toy that did similar to this with options for missiles, fire, etc.
Examples:
Stress Reducers (2000)
Monty Python's Looney Bin (1998) (I could be wrong)
Dilbert's Desktop Games (1997)
Seems to be an easter egg
to me, it's giving "just fuck me up" vibes https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-barber