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This is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend works.
There may actually be some utility here. LLM agents refuse to traverse the links. Tested with gemini-3-pro, gpt-5.2, and opus 4.5. edit: gpt-oss 20B & 120B both eagerly visit it.
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Yeah I meant using it as an experiment to test with two different links(or domains) and not as a solution to evade bot traffic. Still, I think it would be interesting to know if anybody noticed a visible spike in bot traffic(especially AI) after sharing their site info in that thread.
I didn't: no traffic before sharing, none since.
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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…
While this seems like it would make it harder for them I wouldn't be surprised if scammers eventually try to abuse this service too and I have no doubt that people would happily click these if they found in them in a phishing email, that said I give the folks behind this a lot of credit for having a way to contact them and report links if that happens.
This is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend works.
I got https://microsoft.web-safe.link/cZ17Xn_claim_gift_card.msi for this article. What do you get?
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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.
They don’t respect robots.txt, they don’t care about your sitemap, they don’t bother caching, just mindlessly churning away effectively a DDOS.
Google at least played nice.
And so that is why things like anubis exist, why people flock to cloudflare and all the other tried and true methods to block bots.
My favorite link of all time: https://jpmorgan.c1ic.link/logger_zcGFC2_bank_xss.docm Definitely not meta
With Firefox on Android it simply says Deceptive site issue This web page at [...] has been reported as a deceptive site and has been blocked based on your security preferences. What's going on? I can't find any setting to disable this.