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		invisible on March 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub Why wouldn't they make the pages in question serve window.top.location = "somewhere";?

chwahoo on March 27, 2015 [–]

Their solution stops the reloads for each browser and has the benefit of alerting the user that something's wrong, without hammering "somewhere".

invisible on March 28, 2015 | [–]

But if users just click OK multiple times it still means more requests (since it was happening every 2secs).

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