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		joshspankit on March 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code vie... With the Code Viewer, uBlock may (un?)intentionally win a separate war: one where pages are acting against users who open the inspector. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35235732

matheusmoreira on March 21, 2023 [–]

How is it even possible for sites to detect that dev tools are open? How do I stop them from detecting it?

joshspankit on March 21, 2023 | | [–]

One of the threads discussing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236608

Fudgel on March 22, 2023 | | | [–]

https://github.com/AEPKILL/devtools-detector

cprecioso on March 21, 2023 | | [–]

while (true) { debugger; }

Not really detecting it, but avoiding useful usage at first moment

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