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Watch out, this gives a NSFW redirect

• takeda 7y ago
  Is owner of the server playing some tricks, when I tried that URL on Firefox Focus on my phone, it is just the text and I believe what parent wanted to submit, but indeed it looks fishy, I got 403 when tried to see what the redirect was using curl. What did showed for you?
  • sirsar 7y ago
    jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.
    • gield 7y ago
      For anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
      • spondyl 7y ago
        Once you go to the link directly, it appears to work fine coming from HN? It seems to work consistently if you visit (from this thread) in a new tab
        • rrix2 7y ago
          jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
      • bscphil 7y ago
        This is one reason I love having changed network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy[1] in Firefox. I never send the referer to third party domains, and I've only ever seen one or two sites broken because of this. It's a vast improvement for privacy as well. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
    • DonHopkins 7y ago
      Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a testicle in an egg cup." Now they have two problems.
• scruple 7y ago
  Copy paste it, don't click a jwz link from HN.