JavaScript Pranks

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A demo site called The Annoying Site Dot Com assembles real browser tricks and shows they work: it logs you out via image GETs, hijacks opener to navigate the parent tab, registers protocol handlers, tries camera/mic permission prompts, triggers downloads, vibrates Android with navigator.vibrate, spawns and bounces popups, forces fullscreen and picture‑in‑picture, intercepts Command‑W to open print, and copies an ASCII cat plus the site link to the clipboard so the prank spreads.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:00putting those urls into an image tag
3. 2:49vibrate the phone
4. 3:01open a bunch of pop-up windows
5. 3:34copy stuff to your clipboard

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