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jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.
by sirsar 7y ago
jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.
- gield 7y agoFor anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
- spondyl 7y agoOnce you go to the link directly, it appears to work fine coming from HN? It seems to work consistently if you visit (from this thread) in a new tab
- rrix2 7y agojwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
- bscphil 7y agoThis is one reason I love having changed network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy[1] in Firefox. I never send the referer to third party domains, and I've only ever seen one or two sites broken because of this. It's a vast improvement for privacy as well. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
- DonHopkins 7y agoSome people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a testicle in an egg cup." Now they have two problems.