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The one where I deploy counter defences

I thought they might be dynamically setting the--rem value using the browser’s base font size — good for accessibility — but from testing that isn’t the case. Initially I used a mutation observer to detect the appended web component and add extra!important styles to reclaim my territory. Basically the name--rem is now “considered harmful” because Grammarly are bad web citizens.

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