Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads

• lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or save the page if “All of that code runs in your own browser.”

  Sir, this is not how the internet works. I thought people on the Fediverse are a bit more technically-versed than the average population.

  When I disconnect my internet, I can still crop images, save them to my machine in various and use the tools in the left sidebar. Photopea does not use the developers’ server to do these tasks, or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do them at all, when I go offline.

  That doesn’t mean I can just save the whole website locally and run it as is. Mostly, because the developers’ code contains references to online sources or might bug out in certain places if it’s not run on the intended domain, etc.

  If I disassembled the obfuscated code and replaced those online references, I’m pretty sure the whole thing would just work. Not being able to save a website locally and just run it as is does not disprove my point that the application does not technically need a server to run. It’s just that the developer coded it that way.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sir, this is not how the internet works.

    Indeed it’s not. That’s why your claim that you can use Photopea without using their resources is BS.

    Photopea does not use the developers’ server to do these tasks

    Well, it uses the servers to do something and you refuse any compensation.

    If I disassembled the obfuscated code and replaced those online references, I’m pretty sure the whole thing would just work.

    Then do and host your own version.

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    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Keep trolling, my man! I’m outta here. :)

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Keep trolling

        At least I’m not playing the victim when actually freeloading other people’s work and resources.

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