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FireBeyond on July 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire

The latest variations of this put the transparent JPG in the source code, then load in the image via JS with a lower Z layer. Now you move from "View Source", to "Developer Extension, watch assets, copy initial URL, paste, save".

icebraining on July 1, 2013 [–]

Nope, just Select All → View Source, which shows the current DOM state, at least on Firefox.

skeletonjelly on July 1, 2013 | | [–]

Used to weird me out that Chrome performs a new GET request for page source but I guess I'm used to it now.

andyhmltn on July 1, 2013 | | [–]

Well today I learned something new!

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