https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308

Twitch is a dangerous website, the extension probably won’t be back. They could still easily target you at any time and you are just lucky they are sending ads. After some time of using the extension twitch will react and become even more toxic.

Twitch even has a network sniffer in its source code (among other things), its so much worse than just ads, some of these experiments are basically malware/pup that no-one would install on their device willingly, these instances aren’t just left over code from some library they are deliberately crafted experiments that are present in the active code path.

101 points

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.

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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.

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based on the randomly inserted code block that isn’t even syntax-correct, to say nothing about how it doesn’t even make sense, seems to be a tell tale sign of either 1.) AI generated or 2.) schizophrenic generated

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hmm, which parts of it aren’t syntax correct? see below, they made an extension before pulling it

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I don’t see an issue in these two lines.

The only thing is that they are most likely not actually successive lines (because otherwise that code would be pretty weird).

I think that the point of the code is only to show the function names.

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MostlyJustBored’s account 3 weeks old with no history. We should take whatever that guy says with a grain of salt.

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The whole salt cellar.

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The whole salt flat *

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Agreed.

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Maybe you should update your post to reflect that, because right now it’s kinda clickbaity

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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.

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Schizo post?

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