The Even Darker Web - Dirty tricks and questionable code choices on some of the world's largest websites

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Most of you made your own website at least once or twice. You wrote HTML or used a framework that generated static content for you. And you were pretty proud to have something as lightweight as possible. It turns out we are the weirdos. Over years of developing [lookyloo](https://github.com/Lookyloo), we have encountered a lot of interesting (and sometimes terrible) techniques used to show you a webpage, and harvest your data. These techniques include what happens before you see anything (DNS, geolocalisation, time in the day), when you start seeing the page (GDPR popup, Captcha, mouse movement), and after it is fully rendered. (If it ever does...)

Creation date: July 3, 2025

Speakers: Raphaël Vinot

License: CC BY-SA v4

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