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The weirdest thing just happened. I was on https://beej.us/guide/ https://beej.us/guide/ and I removed the last part of the URL to make it only https://beej.us
by robalni 4y ago
The weirdest thing just happened. I was on https://beej.us/guide/ https://beej.us/guide/ and I removed the last part of the URL to make it only https://beej.us https://beej.us and I pressed enter. This took me to cnet.com. I have never been on cnet.com before. I have no idea how this happened. Does anyone have a clue? I'm using Firefox if that matters. Did a web server somewhere get hit by a cosmic ray or is beej's server infected by something? This is super weird. When I try to do it again it just takes me to beej's site as expected.
- jsd1982 4y agoHm, unable to reproduce. Perhaps you have some weird browser extension installed or something intercepting DNS requests?
- pronoiac 4y agoI couldn't reproduce, but I note the background image changes on reloads. Perhaps beej is hotlinking, and one of the images is based on cnet, who redirected to themselves?
- beej71 4y agoMaybe CNET is offering me large sums of money to randomly redirect every hundredth visitor! Actually, they're not, so this is weird. I can't repro, and ripgrep tells me "cnet" doesn't appear in my web pages anywhere. If you find it, I'd love to know what it is.
- bruce343434 4y agobit flip?