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		hashx on March 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hide this in your coworkers' JavaScript code tomor... Facebook blocks the console as it is supposedly used for " exploitation by people to post spam and even used to "hack" accounts" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692646/how-does-faceboo...

danielweber on March 31, 2014 [–]

When you consider Facebook's target audience, it's probably okay to make people like us jump through a hoop in order to stop Grandma from being completely p0wned by typing in some JavaScript.

Yes, maybe people should know that running arbitrary JavaScript is dangerous, but they don't.

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