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Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#61
It probably goes without saying, but you should definitely use some kind of sandboxed browser/session if you want to try this. One annoying URL someone could submit is superlogout.com, which uses logout CSRF to log you out of a whole ton of websites at once.

However, I couldn't get it to work in a private tab, because apparently the invisible captcha fails.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#62
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

I wanted to see the user agent and request headers, since there's another comment about other sites being blocked. I simply looked at basic web server logs. It's a beta site with hardly any traffic, so the only log entries were myself and those from the three users from Urlroulette. I was surprised to see the same IPs were still making requests when I went to close the terminal a while later.

Yeah, log diving is bread and butter, but reading your original comment it sounded like UrlRoulette had some kind of magical feature, where one submits a URL, then gets to see how long the stranger spends on the submitted website. Hence the clarification.

It would be an interesting feature actually, though it would probably require some annoying iframe tomfoolery.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

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post #54

I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later . Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 Bugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797 Hummingbirds: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289 I got three blogs in return, one of which was about catching Pokémon. Fair swap...

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

Look into Hotjar, you can almost get a VNC-like session of the visitor to stream if you want.

(Surely there are competitors to Hotjar, but as I am not that active in this field it is the only thing I have tried)

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#65

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I second this. Here is a big list of websites to filter. http://pasted.co/b2dc3032

Wow, thanks, that's a long list. Will try to implement in the coming days... :)

Why should porn be banned? Maybe that will be the intrigue of some folks.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#67
A couple of tips:

1) There are URL expanders with API to battle URL shorteners, here are some I found with quick googling:

http://www.linkexpander.com/api

https://unshorten.me/api (The API is limited to 10 requests per hour for new short URLs - too slow for you, probably)

http://pro.urlex.org (paid)

2) You could disallow URLs which are detected with 2 or more engines by VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/public-api/

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#68
post #49

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Yes, it does, but I think there is almost no way around that. Many sites still use query parameters to show a specific blog entry for example... :/

Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash. This would also give a chance to scan for malicious content

> Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash.

I'm not sure what you mean here? I've not seen a site tell you "We don't use this query parameter" if you stick an additional param on there.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#69

Tried it a few times, submitted some general interest links from my bookmarks, only to be redirected to scam sites :( Interesting idea, but it's unrealistic to expect good behavior from internet as a whole. It could be useful to have a delay before redirect to be able to read the url and choose whether or not to go in it.

Yep. Just traded a link to a live stream of golden retriever puppies for someones kickstarter project and instantly thought "well I definitely should have expected that".

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

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post #64
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

Look into Hotjar, you can almost get a VNC-like session of the visitor to stream if you want. (Surely there are competitors to Hotjar, but as I am not that active in this field it is the only thing I have tried)

Similarly, you could send somebody a link so they start a chat or play a game with you.
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