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Re: JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/

From	David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/
Date	2026-07-30 16:01 -0600
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David H Durgee wrote:
> Nuno Silva wrote:
>> On 2026-07-26, David H Durgee wrote:
>>
>>> I am now encountering an error with the latest antibot JS at 
>>> xcancel.com:
>>>
>>>> Timestamp: 7/26/26, 6:34:56 AM MDT
>>>> Error: SyntaxError: bad method definition
>>>> Source File: https://xcancel.com/antibot/assets/cap.min.js
>>>> Line: 1, Column: 11984
>>>> Source Code:
>>>> _idle=[],this._queue=[]}}class w extends HTMLElement{static
>>>> formAssociated=!0;#e=null;#t=navigator.hardwareConcurrency||
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to work around this?  Is it possible this will be
>>> supported in the new release coming up?
>>
>> I think that may be the private fields, or at least it uses private
>> fields. IIRC that's part of what is being added in the WIP branch.
>>
>>> I can still access the page by going through their image path, but it
>>> is annoying and tedious.
>>
>> nitter.net still works (or works *again*, given for some time it wasn't
>> usable here?) for me without JS, if that helps. But it seems in recent
>> days it has had occasional problems accessing the twitter upstream, so
>> there may be something going on...
>>
> 
> I heard back from xcancel support and he indicated that the changes that 
> are giving me the problems are due to measures he had to take to deal 
> with increased bot activity.  This might relate to your occasional 
> problems with nitter as well.

A final post on this. Support got back to me indicating that they had 
modified the code to support older Firefox and SeaMonkey.  I confirmed 
that this is now working, but you might need to clear your cache.

Problem solved.

Dave

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JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/ David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2026-07-26 08:10 -0600
  Re: JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/ Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-28 08:38 +0100
    Re: JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/ David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2026-07-28 09:05 -0600
      Re: JS error at https://xcancel.com/ElonMusk/ David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2026-07-30 16:01 -0600

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