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by csunbird 2555 days ago
This reminds me of the story of an internet connected garage door opener that uses GET for opening and closing

> https://twitter.com/rombulow/status/990684453734203392?lang=...

TL;DR: Safari figures out the user is visiting this page very frequently so whenever Safari opens, it tries to send a request to fetch the garage door "page" link before he visits anywhere to cache the response. Which immediately opens the garage door.