On: The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

[tom-lord]

Ohh right, so your plan would be to essentially check for third-party javascript things running on the same page?

This would be a really easy "security" measure to circumvent, though - I could literally just delete your monkey patch, for a start!

[aidos → tom-lord]

It wasn't my idea so, no, that was never my plan :)

Though, you do raise a valid point, so let's see how it plays out.

    setTimeout = function(){...}
    delete setTimeout  // true - you've removed the patch

    window.setTimeout = function(){...}
    delete window.setTimeout  // true - you've removed the patch

    window.constructor.prototype.setTimeout = function(){...}
    delete window.constructor.prototype.setTimeout  // false - the patch is still there!

I don't know about the hierarchy of the prototype chain up at this level but it seems to work.

Maybe there's some other way of getting to the built-in setTimeout so you can create your own version to mask the one I added?

EDIT you can embed an iframe and rip the native setTimeout from there.

[towelguy → aidos]

They could listen to the DOMSubtreeModified event in the 10s div.

[aidos → towelguy]

Nice! There are probably clocks all over the place when you start looking around :)

[zedadex → aidos]

reddit stops you from embedding it iirc

[aidos → zedadex]

I tried that too - you can just use any old page that has CORs headers allowing it.