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   Message 133,841 of 135,536   
   Nuno Silva to All   
   Re: The Web (HTML) Sux   
   24 Dec 25 11:41:33   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-22, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:58:23 -0800, John Ames wrote:   
   >   
   >> Whether it's things like hijacking or "papering over" links with CSS   
   >> constructs that make it impossible to get to one page without going   
   >> through another page first and artificially boosting page views   
   >> thereby (looking at you, YouTube,) designing layouts that are   
   >> completely non- functional if assumptions about DPI/resolution   
   >> aren't met, requiring JS to display static page content, or any of a   
   >> dozen other common abuses ...   
   >   
   > This is why browsers allow you to override site style definitions with   
   > your own.   
      
   How do you do that in current releases of Firefox, btw, is   
   userContent.css still a thing there? @-moz-document got (IIRC) disabled   
   by default there at some point, is it still present?   
      
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