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#1 2009-10-25 11:00 pm
A simple yet brilliant concept
There have been cases where external links have caused problems.
A link to a white supremist group a few years back resulted in a couple of creeps registering here and stirring up trouble.
Links to blogs have resulted in the owner of the blog registering to defend their position.
The forum can also be used for ranking spam.
The solution -
http://anonym.to/
It takes the url as a get argument and does a redirect, but the site it redirects to doesn't then know the real http referer.
Example -
http://anonym.to/?http://www.example.com/
Their logs will show anonym.to as the referer, not maclife.
Should be easy to add to the forum software code to automate.
If you wanted to do it.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
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#2 2009-10-26 3:42 pm
- D'Eyncourt
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Re: A simple yet brilliant concept
Good find!
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#3 2009-10-26 3:57 pm
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Re: A simple yet brilliant concept
Aww, but I like counter-trolling white supremacists!
YOU CAN'T TAKE THE SKY FROM ME RES
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#4 2009-10-27 5:02 pm
- mmaverick
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Re: A simple yet brilliant concept
resedit wrote:
There have been cases where external links have caused problems.
Links to blogs have resulted in the owner of the blog registering to defend their position.
I said I was leaving this forum, but I'm sorry I just had to say something here.
You see people defending their position on something as a smurfing problem? Minithink makes so much more sense to me now.
There's a snake in my boot!
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#5 2009-10-27 5:05 pm
- Pariah
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Re: A simple yet brilliant concept
I always assume that obscured links are spam or malevolent. I like being able to see where a link goes before I click.
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#6 2009-10-27 11:44 pm
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Re: A simple yet brilliant concept
Pariah wrote:
I always assume that obscured links are spam or malevolent. I like being able to see where a link goes before I click.
Thanks for teaching us how to use the internet Pariah.
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#7 2009-11-06 9:55 am
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