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sirsar
on Jan 10, 2020
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VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year annive...
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.
DonHopkins
on Jan 12, 2020
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a testicle in an egg cup." Now they have two problems.
gield
on Jan 11, 2020
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For anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
bscphil
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This 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.
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
spondyl
on Jan 11, 2020
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Once 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
on Jan 11, 2020
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jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
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