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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#61
Once, out of the kindness of my foolish heart, I ran a server with a lot of great sound effects for all and sundry to download.

Eventually the bandwidth was getting hammered by a huge number of leechers seemingly from some apps that had simply hard-linked to the resources.

After replacing said resources [0] they soon ceased but not without a slew of abusive and entitled emails demanding I restore the SFX.

Oh fun times!

[0] https://fukpig.bandcamp.com/track/all-of-you-are-cunts-and-i...

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#63

I don't know why I checked but uhh yup. It's working. There are at least 6 sites on the first page of Google results that now render goatse. Thankfully, the first link is the original one for me.

Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D

[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/

edit: folks the xkcd lucky 10k reference was a joke, settle down

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#66

This is reckless and irresponsible. Think of the children. They don’t deserve to see such a picture

I saw it the first time as a kid. My friends and I tried to trick each other to see it too. I'm fine. We're fine.

Consider: what is it exactly that makes parents want to stop their children from bearing witness to swearing?

I can't imagine that it's that they think children can be be damaged in some way by knowing how to curse.

I imagine it's more that children will think these words are fun new toys and will constantly repeat them, enjoying how much of a reaction they provoke. And that the parent 1. will feel sad that the child now has this verbal crutch that they may end up leaning into in the future in place of learning how to speak eloquently; and 2. will feel ashamed when others in the community see the child swearing, and assume that it's a behavior that the parent inculcated into them by swearing constantly in front of them, rather than a behavior the parent tried their best to prevent — but which the child inevitably picked up somewhere outside the home.

There's probably something analogous here, right? Being exposed to "graphic imagery" is not really damaging per se. Rather, seeing such things just shifts a child's potential repertoire of behaviors/responses slightly (think: being desensitized enough to such imagery to find it funny to use to troll others in a school computer lab), in a way that might be assumed by others to have been a direct consequence of the parent's actions (e.g. by having sex / watching porn in front of their children.) Such behaviors by the child will reflect badly on the parent's parenting, even if they were actually purely the result of the child's self-motivated idle curiosity.

In short, these things — a child swearing, a child sending pictures of gross buttholes to other children — are conflationary triggers for community shaming of the parents: they cause behaviors in children that could well have been caused by bad parenting, and so tar the parents with the brush of being bad parents, whether or not the parent is actually bad.

Parents don't tend to like being shamed by the community for bad parenting, when they don't believe themselves to be bad parents; so they treat any such "conflationary triggers" for that shaming, as taboos, things to avoid their children witnessing, even if those things aren't "damaging."

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#67
post #43

This is hilarious, but I think the most mature thing to do would have been to detect if the site is inside an iframe and if so add a polite link saying "click here to go to sqword.com and play this game ad free".

The author said he’s not mature. His approach is much awesomer than the nature thing.

His approach is "funny" if you want, but it doesn’t help real users finding the real domain.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#69
post #31

I don't know why I checked but uhh yup. It's working. There are at least 6 sites on the first page of Google results that now render goatse. Thankfully, the first link is the original one for me.

This just made my day

Time was, the 3oƐ was rickrolling before anyone was never given up.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#70
post #55
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to do that, you should at least generate shortened URLs as well.

But then it’s not stateless anymore.

It's not stateless at all because of the main page, so this is more of a weird anti-optimization.
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