On: JavaScript Is Weird

[woutr_be]

They don’t. They just use “console.log”, you see it because you opened the console. It’s not like they know you’re there and then write a message.

[hmsimha → woutr_be]

Devtools can actually be detected to a certain extent - https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect

[pityJuke → hmsimha]

> Doesn't work if DevTools is undocked and will show false positive if you toggle any kind of sidebar.

This annoys me every time because I use Tree Style Tab, and a website tries to detect DevTools. See Samy Kamkar's website [0].

[0]: https://samy.pl/

[khasan222 → hmsimha]

Seems like this guy is just using a width a height difference to detect this. Also some ‘window.FireBug’ property, that doesn’t turn up much currently in chrome or ff console on Ubuntu

[amelius → hmsimha]

This entire project should be copied verbatim into browser bug trackers, imho.