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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by asynchronous13 »

latexr wrote: post #86

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to make something useless for fun, it’s an interesting idea. But what I’d like to understand is why there are so many of the same thing. I know I’ve seen this exact idea multiple times on HN. It’s funny the first time, but once it’s done once and the novelty is gone (which is almost immediately), what’s the point of another and another and another?

The author posted this project on reddit a few days ago where they mentioned their motivation: "I have a coworker who is constantly talking about the glory days of ShadyUrl, but that website has been down for several years at this point, so I figured I would create an alternative."

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by tcgv »

Hole in one!

I shortened a link and when trying to access it in Chrome I get a red screen with this message:

  Dangerous site
  Attackers on the site you tried visiting might trick you into installing software or revealing things like your passwords, phone, or credit card numbers. Chrome strongly recommends going back to safety.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by Dilettante_ »

testfrequency wrote: post #51
devsda wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish this came a day earlier. There is a current "show your personal site" post on top of HN [1] with 1500+ comments. I wonder how many of those sites are or will be hammered by AI bots in the next few days to steal/scrape content. If this can be used as a temporary guard against AI bots, that would have been a good opportunity to test it out. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714

Glad I’m not the only one who felt icky seeing that post. I agree my tinfoil hat signal told me this was the perfect way to ask people for bespoke, hand crafted content - which of course AI will love to slurp up to keep feeding the bear.

Not producing or publishing creative works out of fear that someone will find them and build on top of them is such a strange position to me, especially on a site that has it's cultural basis in hacker culture.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by petcat »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #129
RIMR wrote: post #122

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Okay, but then what? Host your sites on something other than 'www' or '*', exclude them from search engines, and never link to them? Then, the few people who do resolve these subdomains, you just gotta hope they don't do it using a DNS server owned by a company with an AI product (like Google, Microsoft, or Amazon)? I really don't know how you're supposed to shield your content from AI without also shielding it from…

Don't have any index pages or heavy cross-linking between pages.

None of that matters. AI bots can still figure out how to navigate the website.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by zulban »

latexr wrote: post #104
amne wrote: post #89

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I think it's just someone learning something new most of the time. I have home made url shorteners in go, rust, java, python, php, elixir, typescript, etc. why? because I'm trying the language and this kind of project touches on many things: web, databases, custom logic, how and what design patterns can I apply using as much of the language as I can to build the thing.

Right. But the question is why redo the exact same joke ? Why not come up with another twist (like the URL lengthener) or do no twist but be useful? I’m not criticising the author or anyone who came before. I’m trying to understand the impetus between redoing a joke that isn’t yours. You don’t learn anything new by redoing the exact same gag that you wouldn’t learn by being even slightly original or making the projec…

If you don't need to design a new product, you can focus on execution.

You may want to learn about design and novelty. Some people just want to learn about execution.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by ronsor »

Dilettante_ wrote: post #135
testfrequency wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad I’m not the only one who felt icky seeing that post. I agree my tinfoil hat signal told me this was the perfect way to ask people for bespoke, hand crafted content - which of course AI will love to slurp up to keep feeding the bear.

Not producing or publishing creative works out of fear that someone will find them and build on top of them is such a strange position to me, especially on a site that has it's cultural basis in hacker culture.

AI has driven a lot of people mad and not just its end users.
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