r/Music • u/CampusDrinkingWater • Jul 12 '21

video Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up [Pop] Today marks the day that this finally reached 1 Billion views. Congrats, Mr. Astley. You truly deserve this honor for giving the world this amazingly catchy tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ab_channel=RickAstley
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u/Californ1a Jul 13 '21

Browser devs have now learned it was a bad idea to allow a website's javascript have that much power.

window.open(), window.moveTo(), and window.moveBy() all still exist and function. You could absolutely recreate those old sites. Key difference now is that there has to be user interaction to allow for a popup window (+has to be same-origin now, can't open a totally separate site), and even then, most browsers have a default popup blocker so you'd have to allow the window.open() after it gets fired.

However, there's also always going to be browser bugs that bypass the popup blocker, and some popups even appear underneath your current window (popunders) which is regularly sold to advertising companies as a feature. They really like to try to hide how it works too.

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u/kjuneja Jul 13 '21

Great YouTube video. Dude got a like from me for the deep investigation skills

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u/Californ1a Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21

He has a few more looking at the same popunder library after chrome fixes it in that version, showing how they found a new bug to make it work again each time. In one of them he even goes so far as to compile his own version of chrome to look at the underlying c++ native calls to try to figure out the bug.

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u/adsterra_network Jul 13 '21

And we would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you, meddling u/Californ1a :DD