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Sure enough, the .zip
TLD is just being used for malicious activity
Sure enough, the .zip
TLD is just being used for malicious activity
There are far more robust methods of fingerprinting to spy on users anyway (adding up all the details of screen size, available fonts, language, os, etc, etc), so I don’t think removing the user agent would have much impact in reducing fingerprinting alone. It’s also useful as a quick and simple way to check the type of device, os, or browser the user is on and serve the correct content (download link for one’s OS) or block troublesome clients (broken bots)
If I recall correctly, one of the things that led to it finally being shut down was that having community of people interested in that content inevitably led to them sharing the real thing via dms
Why the fuck are ads even profitable? Seriously? Who actually sees an ad and thinks “I’m going to buy this product”? When I see an ad I think “fuck you” and I’m less likely to buy their product.
One indication is that they defederate several hundred instances, far more than any other Lemmy instance does, and some for no apparent reason and with nothing at all objectionable.
They can block other ads, but they can’t block YouTube ads since YouTube ads come from the same domains as the videos.
I wonder if it’s an SD card failure.
Mine was up for 200 days or so, basically untouched, before I upgraded the hardware.