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Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block “View Source”

41 points| monday_ | 4 years ago |mastodon.social

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afavour|4 years ago

No they didn’t. It allows the machine owner to block use of view source:

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1458730029819514883?...

As the thread indicates, admins already do this via browser extensions that are often horribly implemented. This is an officially sanctioned alternatives for e.g. machines where users take exams.

draw_down|4 years ago

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lewisjoe|4 years ago

Here's Jake Archibald's defence against the decision - https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1458730029819514883

gjsman-1000|4 years ago

In an enterprise deployment? I see no problem with that - enterprises should be able to customize almost anything (see Windows Group Policy).

Heck, I’d probably disable View Source for the non-technical departments so they wouldn’t accidentally click it, get confused, and file a ticket.

ParadisoShlee|4 years ago

This is the slippery slope to the NFT people blocking right click!

IiydAbITMvJkqKf|4 years ago

No, they didn't. How did this make it to the front page?

FpUser|4 years ago

Doctor, my arm hurts. Not to worry we'll chop it off. This type of solution.

DerekBickerton|4 years ago

What are they going to deprecate hitting F12 and 'hacking' a webpage next?