uploaderwin

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by uploaderwin 5y ago
It's so sad that such amazing features are often abused more than they are actually used. It's always a cat and mouse game with the browser vendors and ad makers. Like web push notifications and popups are two really useful featur
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
Yeah this is asking for trouble. We only had a small demo on our homepage where users could upload media files and they were deleted after 24 hours and still some people managed to abuse it and nearly got our site killed, domain blacklisted
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Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site(uploader.win)
536 points by uploaderwin 6y ago|284 comments
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
Hey guys! Great news. Looks like Google just removed us from the blacklist. Maybe somebody from Google saw this or maybe I got reviewd quickly but I couldn't be happier. Here are a few things I did - Removed all inline images (As menti
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
Thanks for checking and help. Yes I too believe this could be one of the cause as I've mentioned below in another comment, virustotal site says 'base64-embedded'. Those are just svg images I've embedded in the html to re
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
Yes this is 100% correct and I was thinking the same. The homepage, test storage and external script cannot share the domain. I have already started making these changes.
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
Yes you are correct they can download it too. After thinking about it for the last 4 hours that is all i can think off caused the problem. I have nothing which can be called deceptive text on any of my site otherwise. I will probably delete
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
The upload goes to the customers AWS account or Digitalocean spaces account. We do not host any cutomer's file. Also it always opens-up a file popup so it can't be used deceptively. Regarding the name it's short form of &#x27
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
This is so strange. Unfortunately I can't find any security issue on the server or any files that caused this. Here is a screenshot of webmaster tools(1). The pages it lists are html pages and I've checked the source code and ther
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by uploaderwin 6y ago
We don't offer any hosting. The demo on our website is way for people to actually see how the uploader will look in their own apps. Most companies like ours offer similar demos to their users too.
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Help HN: Google just blocked my site as deceptive site
40 points by uploaderwin 6y ago|21 comments