It turned into a bit of a malware redirect cesspool, and I guess they didn't want to police it. I ran across the issue about two weeks before this blog post:

It turned into a bit of a malware redirect cesspool, and I guess they didn't want to police it. I ran across the issue about two weeks before this blog post: https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475673195654959108 https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475673195654959108 https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475859899099746308 https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475859899099746308 Basically, bad actors were setting up open javascript redirects on github pages, then using git.io to redirect to arbitrary target URLs.