The problem# Slashdot recently made a change to their ad code that made the site completely fail to load for me, showing the message Failed to load website properly since html-load.com is blocked. Please allow html-load.com and then blaming ad blocking: This page could not be loaded properly...
The problem# I was writing a user script where I wanted to be able to intercept the fetch() calls the web page made so my script could use the contents. I found a suggestion of simply reassigning window.fetch to my own function that internally called the real window.fetch while also doing whatever...
The problem# In an RSS/Atom feed, relative links are a bad idea because it's unclear what they're relative to. There are ways to specify a base for them to be relative to, but since feed readers do not consistently respect those mechanisms, it's safer to just always use absolute URLs in feeds. And...