The Most Annoying Website (aka "The Power of the Web Platform")
summary
Builds a live demo called annoying site com that spawns popups and refuses to die, using window.open plus per-popup mover code, clipboard writes, picture‑in‑picture videos, camera torch API, navigator media prompts, history stuffing, forced downloads and navigator.vibrate patterns. Shows past Flash iframe webcam bug and localStorage-by-subdomain fill trick, reports WebTorrent desktop passing 1,000,000 downloads, and demonstrates each exploit working end to end rather than promising abstract examples.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Hacks
- 2:12Troubleshooting
- 3:32Storytime
- 5:53Flash Bug
- 8:21Bank In America
- 9:12Writing Code For Fun
- 10:22Is The Web Not Fun
- 10:59Is The Web Too Safe
- 11:31ActiveX
- 12:14Side Story
- 13:00Weird Web APIs
- 13:19Window Move and Its Friends
- 13:43Origin Policy
- 14:13Open a New Window
- 15:00Continue Moving
- 20:09UserInitiated Events
- 20:38Child Window
- 20:58Window to Opener
- 21:50Window to Edges
- 22:09Window to Videos
- 22:21Text on Clipboard
- 23:02Leaving a Site
- 23:25Protocol Handlers
- 24:08Camera Microphone
- 24:53Navigator Vibration
- 25:15Safari PictureInPicture
- 26:24Safari Cursor
- 26:35File Downloads
- 27:17Alerts
- 28:24Random dialogues
- 28:35Logout
- 29:22Post Request
- 30:00embarrassing searches
- 30:25how it works
- 31:06target
- 34:13email
- 34:41URL
- 35:29Mouse Follow
- 36:18Window Follow
- 37:44Stuart Brown Quote
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