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...or sending that image[1] jwz sends back upon detecting HN in the referer. I bet they'll find the app in a matter of hours, or at least reduce the traffic dra
by sangnoir 6y ago
...or sending that image[1] jwz sends back upon detecting HN in the referer. I bet they'll find the app in a matter of hours, or at least reduce the traffic drastically.
1. https://www.jwz.org https://www.jwz.org NSFW!
- bzb6 6y agoThis makes me wonder why the hell referer headers are still sent by major browsers, especially to third parties. I can’t think of a single reason that benefits the user.
- qwertay 6y agoOriginally it probably just sounded like a cool feature to see what blog linked to you. Now its been around for so long that so much has been programmed to actually use it. If you turn it off you get every anti bot script blowing up on you. I think browsers did drop the path from it at least.
- jessaustin 6y agoFor one thing, examining referer is a common way that a server determines a request is not a hotlink. Sure you can do something more complicated with cookies or whatever, but lots of sites are just using referer and they'll break if the client doesn't send it.
- namibj 6y agoBut for that it's enough to send it for same-origin requests. No need to send it cross-origin, except for tracking purposes.
- iggldiggl 6y agoThat'd still break the distinction between hotlinking and the user using a bookmark or copy/paste to directly open the URL in question.
- h_anna_h 6y agoLetting the sites distinguish between the two does not seem to be in the interest of the user.
- iggldiggl 6y agoWell, it'd mean that any site blocking hotlinking would also automatically block direct bookmarks/URL entry, too, which isn't really in the "interest of the user" either, I'd say.
- brianush1 6y agoIf Chrome suddenly stopped sending referrer headers, let's be real here, 99% of websites would be fixed within a couple of days at most.
- malaya_zemlya 6y agoif you are making any sort of content or running a website, it is really useful to know how people found you.
- sli 6y agoAll I get is a scrolling hex editor looking thing. Maybe that redirect has been disabled?
- pengaru 6y agoYep, jwz has had a change of heart and sees today's HN as a born again breath of fresh air.
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- geoelectric 6y agoI’m seeing the nut sundae on iOS mobile so I wouldn’t get too happy yet...
- jaredsohn 6y agoTry from a new profile or incognito. I saw the described image but after I visited the site directly I couldn't see it any more when redirectly via hacker news. Saw it again when I opened an incognito tab.
- mey 6y agoYou aren't sending a referrer header (a good thing).
- lxe 6y agoJust learned that this person owns DNA Lounge (and pizza?), and is a founder (early contributor?) of Netscape and Mozilla.org. I've lived and worked in that particular area of SF for years and haven't known this.
- alsetmusic 6y agoOne of my company's clients has a beautiful office right above DNA Lounge (well, across the street or just adjacent - it's been a while and I've only been there once). They told me they can hear sound checks from their rooftop patio.
- tingletech 6y agothere used to be linux based public terminals in DNA lounge too, IIRC
- m463 6y agonetscape used to display a spinning compass when you put about:jwz in the title bar other good ones were about:1994 and about:mozilla hey, about:mozilla still works in firefox
- eythian 6y agoabout:robots also works in Firefox, I know it's been there for a long time but I have no idea if it was ever in Netscape.
- kbrosnan 6y agoabout:robots is from the early Firefox releases. Pretty sure it is from Firefox 3.0 development as you can find the same robot in images when searching for Firefox Gran Paridiso Robot. https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+gran+paradiso+robot&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+gran+paradiso+robot&...
- hedora 6y agoAlso, jwz is responsible for xscreensaver.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI think he's the only one that uses that? Barely even worth mentioning in comparison.
- murph-almighty 6y agoFor those reticent to click on their work computers but morbidly curious, can someone describe the image?
- sangnoir 6y agoIt's a motivational-poster-type image with a white egg holder in the foreground, but instead of an egg, it's holding one exquisitely detailed hairy, caucasian ball[1]. At the top, the title is "HACKER NEWS" and the bottom text is "A DDoS OF FINANCE-OBSESSED MAN-CHILDREN AND BROGRAMMERS" 1. Is there a collective biological term for scrotum and it's contents that is not general like "genitals" is?