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chewstoday at 5:37 PM1 replyview on HN

I love that when you open a web inspection console on facebook, it says "Stop! This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy-paste something here to enable a Facebook feature or "hack" someone's account, it's a scam and will give them access to your Facebook account. See https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information."


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dylan604today at 6:16 PM

I've used the devtools for years now, but for whatever reason, it never occurred to me to try and format the text like that. Too bad that that message is not clean as there were plenty of other things in the console so that I actually had to scroll around to find it. Had someone asked me to open the console and do something, I would not have seen the message.