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by jerf 4481 days ago
Unfortunately, ridiculousness does not seem to prevent people from being hurt by it on Facebook.

What Netflix thinks they are defending against I don't know, though. Hopefully a Facebook user would think twice about some really long list of instructions of how to bypass the Facebook security. Since I can't imagine Netflix has the same problems with people being fooled into attacking themselves, they probably think this is some sort of security measure, but, that's a race they not only can't win, they can't even stay even with. Making it slightly more annoying to run JS? Sure. Making it impossible? Not gonna happen; the user has to much control over the JS context.