Using Goatse to Stop App Theft • Hacker News Board

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#101

Post by gonehome » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:32 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #78

I 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 u…

+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo.

I'd guess the author is pretty young.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by adolph » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #59

RIMR wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's right, this is a pro-showing-buttholes-to-children community.

Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. /s

Didn’t Andres Serrano do a version of it?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by permo-w » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

feoren wrote: post #97

permo-w wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD

Cringeworthy? This is one of the more oft-linked XKCDs, I think because it makes a valid observation: everyone has a few things that "everyone knows" that they've randomly missed, and it's more fun to enjoy the discovery than to ridicule them for something that happens to all of us randomly.

the observation is sound, it's the presentation that irks me

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by squidbeak » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

beardog wrote: post #19

I would argue showing nonconsentual explicit imagery is worse than iframing someomes app. Just show a non nsfw troll meme or block it outright.

The parasitic website is displaying the image. No iframe, no image.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#105

Post by polygamous_bat » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #78

I 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 u…

You could, however, easily block the game and render a message directing users to your actual site if you detect they are using the site in an iframe. What legitimate reason can there be for that?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by starstripe » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

I'm not sure everyone who sees the graphic image might fully understand what's going on. They might just think there's something wrong with sqword, not the site that's stealing it, and repelling potential players as a result.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#107

Post by ugjka » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #78

I 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 u…

I think my strict privacy settings on Firefox are preventing the goatse, perhaps it needs a cookie or something

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#108

Post by rabbits_2002 » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #50

Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php

Safari offered to save the password lmao

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by hiatus » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

gregsadetsky wrote: post #83

carterparks wrote: post #4

Your website has the worst permalinks ever.

oh no -- it's actually vulnerable to xss...!!! https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eNpTVlaoKC5WSEnNzefisilOLsosKL... (this just injects a alert but.... that's bad) just tried contacting the author via linkedin (since I don't see an email address on their site) @joshcsimmons are you around?

The author is aware.

> Every post that I want to publicly claim authorship of lives at the root of this site. If you are reading a post that I have claimed it will look like this page. Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page.

https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by joshmanders » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 4:38 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #50

Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php

This is absolutely amazing. More people should do this.