However, I couldn't get it to work in a private tab, because apparently the invisible captcha fails.
Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
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Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#62Earlier 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.
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
#63Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#64I 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).
(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
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#66Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#671) 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:
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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
#69Tried 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.
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#70Earlier 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)