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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by mrguyorama »

hk__2 wrote: post #75
technics256 wrote: post #8

Earlier 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 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.

If seeing a mans butthole causes you serious psychological trauma, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than seeing a mans butthole.

Everyone has a butthole. Do kids never look in the mirror? Do kids never explore bodies? We spent 100k years or more looking at each other in the nude and somehow our species didn't all go insane.

Nakedness probably doesn't hurt anyone.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by tetha »

seanhunter wrote: post #47
earthboundkid wrote: post #11

There’s an HTTP header you can add that prevents a page being in an iframe, but go off, king.

Just so anyone searching this thread is aware, "Content-Security-Policy:... frame-ancestors 'none';" is what you are (I think) referring to. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...

Oh, TIL X-Frame-Options has been superseeded. That was the header I was thinking about.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by TeMPOraL »

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…

Devil's advocate: OPs approach is a form of inoculation against the ad-powered Internet. The experience may not be pleasant, but drives the right message and quite memorably so.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by squidbeak »

hk__2 wrote: post #75
technics256 wrote: post #8

Earlier 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 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.

Presuming every conceivable avenue for surprise will lead to trauma, what's left for anyone to enjoy?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by dym_sh »

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

does it respond with 42.zip upon submitting admin-admin?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by dinkleberg »

aosaigh wrote: post #37
NGRhodes wrote: post #12

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> This blog is now STATELESS. The entire post is contained in the URL that you are visiting now. All my "blog" is now is a hard-coded main page that contains links to posts I claim authorship of. Of course the entire post is contained in each of these links. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...

I don't understand how this helps ownership of content? What situation is this trying to avoid? You already "own" your URL if you own your domain? EDIT: understand you are not the OP btw, just wondering out loud.

The only thing I can think of is if they want to share controversial posts while having the ability to deny that they wrote it (as long as they don’t actually create a link to it from their own site).

It’s not a good use case IMO, but that is all I can think of lol

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by thomastjeffery »

The world we live in: people somehow feel more comfortable posting shock/traumatic images than regular consensual porn.

This is one of the few parts of internet culture I hope to see the end of. We can be edgy and offensive without traumatizing each other.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by mrguyorama »

mcv wrote: post #76
say_it_as_it_is wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

It's a butthole. It's not some traumatic thing.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by darknavi »

gonehome wrote: post #101
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.

It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money.

Definitely childish though.

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