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Did something nefarious happen to your link?

• AdmiralAsshat 5mo ago
  I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN? And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o... So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!
  • matheusmoreira 5mo ago
    Just open a new tab and paste the link in.
    • ge96 5mo ago
      or another browser
    • biofox 5mo ago
      Ugh... that worked, but I gave up once I got to the home page. To quote the late, great, Ray Arnold... "I hate this Hacker crap!"
    • PhilipRoman 5mo ago
      It also sets a HN=1 cookie, so you may need to clear that or use incognito
      • matheusmoreira 5mo ago
        I see. I'm using Firefox's containers feature and that prevented the cookie from carrying over.
  • vadansky 5mo ago
    http://archive.is/UMMCx http://archive.is/UMMCx
    • cluckindan 5mo ago
      dang, please block these links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
      • NooneAtAll3 5mo ago
        what's the alternative?
        • lobocinza 5mo ago
          archive.org
          • ameliaquining 5mo ago
            It was just demonstrated upthread that archive.org doesn't work for this purpose.
  • lukewarm707 5mo ago
    the original redirected to the softcore image and then the web archive link tried to rip my eardrums. this kind of adversarial 'defence' (attack) is new to me, maybe i'm naive but i didn't like it.
  • leephillips 5mo ago
    He’s had that in place for years. Yes, it’s special treatment for visitors from HN.
    • NooneAtAll3 5mo ago
      such information leak just means your browser isn't private enough