Comment by Permik
3 hours ago
The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.
3 hours ago
The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.
What are the alternatives besides the IA?
https://periscope.corsfix.com/
Surprised that using visitors for DDoS attacks wasn't enough already.
not sure why this is downvoted. they modified their captcha so that visitors contributed to a ddos against a blog, on top of a handful of other threats, tampering of archived data, etc.
they are not great people.
As a personal vendetta against Jani Patokallio (a Finnish cybersecurity blogger) who was trying to unmask the person who ran the site - which goes back to 2023.
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There's been quite a lot of people still defending the site. Basically "who cares about DDoS attacks and altering archived sites' content when it allows bypassing paywalls?"
well, yeah
Setting my user-agent to Googlebot in a private window bypasses most paywalls just fine. Surprised at how many sites aren't checking against the published IP ranges.
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Residential proxies DDoSing half the internet is standard operating procedure this decade and yet everyone still buys connected garbage and monetizes their apps this way.