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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 #127

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

> It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money. It’s bad for their image and so for any business they may work on now or in the future.

Why would you want to do business with someone who prefers your content being used and monetized without your consent?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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It’s really pathetic that Google is happy to profit off of these theft sites. They will never fix their search results because they are the ones selling the ads on behalf of the scammers. Break up the monopoly.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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post #82

Never thought is say it but uhm... the world needs more goatse apparently OP you should follow this up by reporting all the said websites to google.

Google won’t fix this, they actively profit from the theft sites because Google is the one selling the ads on those pages. Break them up.

Google may or may not be the ad network on the ripoff pages. If the pages are really that shady I'm gonna err on the side of not.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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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

> There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog

There are moments I'm about to deploy something similar and by now what's stopping me are laziness and other higher priorities. I'm staring at these aggravating items in server log and maybe someday.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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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.

I would argue what toning down everything and protecting everyone from any harm is the way to the safe new world.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#177

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…

The abuser here is Google.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#178
post #142

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I didn't want to see it But it was kind of a rickroll situation... yeah it sucks

In college my friend came over for a LAN party and when he went to the bathroom I quietly set his background to Goatse… I got quite the chuckle at 3am when he went to shut down his computer after a long night of gaming. Ah to be young again.

> after a long night of gaming.

Wasn’t it more like 3 hours to setup and get the network functioning, and hour of gaming?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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post #75

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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.

Everyone has a butthole but most people's buttholes don't look like that guy's butthole. I hope.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#180
post #75

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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.

What's the selection bias here? Is the claim that there's some huge population so emotionally scarred from seeing a shock image that they permanently left the internet? Or died?
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