ComcastifyJS – Sometimes images just load too damned fast

[dlubarov]

https://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/

[azinman2]

Love that the onion uses humor to recruit. Too bad it's not something that's actually useful somehow as well!

[tim333 → azinman2]

It could be useful for people campaigning for net neutrality if they want a "This is what downloads may become like:" with an image on their site.

[darkstar999]

I posted this yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305709

[eck]

It needs a whitelist of giant corporations like Netflix that acquiesce to Comcast's fees. Images should only load slowly on poor websites.

[elwell → eck]

Here: https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs/pull/5

[Xeoncross]

It's friday, just one last push to add comcastifyjs.fixMyImagesLoadingSoFast() to the build process before the weekend...

[kentonv]

This appears to be the code behind "These Koalas Are Refusing To Load In Support Of Net Neutrality": http://www.clickhole.com/article/these-koalas-are-refusing-l...

[dzhiurgis]

Yeah if developers could keep their protests within US - that would be great.

[vdnkh → dzhiurgis]

Because net neutrality is an issue only faced in the US, right?

[dzhiurgis → vdnkh]

Factually - yes?

[jacob019]

Comcast is a trademark. Perhaps it could be exempted as a parody, but if this got popular I would expect a DMCA takedown.

[kentonv → jacob019]

DMCA covers copyrights, not trademarks.

Anyway, I'm sure The Onion would love to get a C&D from Comcast. They'd have a field day with that.

[hoers]

This just took me back deep into memories of looking at porn in the 90s.