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The fact to he took the time to do that shows who the real man-child is
by geitir 7y ago
The fact to he took the time to do that shows who the real man-child is
- Ygg2 7y agoThat, or he hates the HN hug of death.
- dspillett 7y agoNah, just having a problem with the hug of death would be an explanation for redirecting to a polite static message saying "sorry, my site can't handle the load when HN links to it". What he has done instead is excessively diskish.
- wil421 7y agoWhat has he done? Everyone’s commenting he doesn’t like HN but when I clicked the link everything looks fine. Serious question.
- rgoulter 7y agoIt redirects to an image with a hairy testicle and gives a low opinion of HN readers: https://web.archive.org/web/20191014203443/https://www.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png https://web.archive.org/web/20191014203443/https://www.jwz.o...
- robjan 7y agoYou must be using Brave or a browser plugin which doesn't send referral headers. If you use a normal browser, it displays a testicle in an egg cup with a silly phrase complaining about the demographic of HN users.
- wil421 7y agoI’m using iOS safari with AdGuard. It’s probably AdGuard.
- dorfsmay 7y agoI open everything for which I don't need to be logged in, in an incognito window, and this page worked fine.
- dspillett 7y agoAn incognito window doesn't quite count as "if you use a normal browser". Unless your not using incognito is the unusual case for you, which it isn't for most users. Given a choice between changing my browsing behaviour to see his content or just blocking it so it (the testicle redirect or the other content) will never both my vision again, I go for the latter option.
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- gitgud 7y agoThe fact that it's the only site I've seen that demonstrates the ability to read HTTP referral headers from hacker news shows who the real hacker is...