i don't want to relive the shock the first time i wondered into goatse
Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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#72I'd be worried about the risk of a misfire. Like if someone had a weird browser plug in or something.
A "plug in" eh?
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#73This is perhaps the most novel usage of a supply chain attack I've yet seen.
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#74maybe OP tried it's exploit in internet explorer 5.0, but I doubt it'll work in any recent (read: less than 5 years old) browser.
Modern browsers will straight up tell the server the resource is being loaded from an iframe via Sec-Fetch-Dest.
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#75This 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.
You feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others.
This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things can say "I went through XYZ and I’m still alive". That doesn’t make this XYZ something you would recommend to anyone.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can't unsee it. You know exactly what it looks like. It etches into long-term memory like a scar that never fades.
After tubgirl I vowed to never click on links people said I shouldn't. I've never seen goatse because of this rule. (I have been rickrolled a lot, but that's fine.)
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#77I absolutely love this.
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#78I run three word games, this stuff happens for all of them. It sucks but I would never do what they did, it's abusive to the people who just googled your game and ended up on the wrong site.
I've had teachers and students reach out to me to say they play my game in class every day together. And parents who play with their kids every day, and adult who text their results to each other every day.
It sucks if they end up doing it on an ad-ridden site when I built an experience that asks nothing of them. But it would suck even more to goatse them.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can't unsee it. You know exactly what it looks like. It etches into long-term memory like a scar that never fades.
I both find this hole thread interesting & entertaining, and I have yet to see the goatse image despite knowing about it since 2005 or so. I saw too many things as a child that are indelibly etched into my awareness and I practice filtering now so to minimize distractions.
However, context matters quite a bit! If someone Rick-rolled me with this I hope I'd have a good humor about it.
And there's always therapy, via whatever medium works.
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#80I 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
I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD