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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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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.

I don't see how that is possible. The web site is a disconnected graph with a lot of components. If they get hold of a url, maybe that gets them to a few other pages, but not all of them. Most of the pages on my personal site are .txt files with no outbound links, for that matter. Nothing to navigate.

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

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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.

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

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Anubis flatly refuses me access to several websites when I'm accessing them with a normal Chromium with enabled JS and whatnot, from a mainstream, typical OS, just with aggressive anti-tracking settings. Not sure if that's the intended use case. At least Cloudflare politely masks for CAPTCHA.

What do you mean "refuses"? The worst it should do is serve up a high difficulty proof of work. Unless it gained new capabilities recently? Are you sure the block isn't due to the authors of those websites using some other tool in addition?

Sorry didn't take the screenshot, but I get a message akin to "You have been blocked by anubis software" with anubis logo and whatnot. Maybe anubis uses some other plugin or someone just decided to put up such page. Idk.

Imagine Cloudflare "You're blocked" page, but with different design and logos.

I don't think it requested anything else, at least I didn't see anything else. If I find this page again, I'll reply with a link to the screenshot.

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