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So apparently dang and the HN crowd are so upset I wrote some messages for HN visitors to our website, that they now banned my home IP address 🙃

Yes, seriously. I get 403s from any device on my home connection, and yet it works fine on 4G.

Just when you thought they couldn't get pettier. And no, I haven't been doing any scraping/scripting/anything sus.

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Reminder that this is the same HN that previously added rel=noreferer to outbound links specifically to asahilinux.org after we started redirecting away their traffic.

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@marcan having to deal with them seems like it's a really huge pain blobcatsweats
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@marcan So how are you actually identifying their traffic now, out of curiosity?

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@aburka @marcan It's in the source code your browser is rendering (html, javascript and/or css). It's not directly "in your face", but far from obfuscated. Have a look :)

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@aburka @marcan yeah, I'd like to know so I can do the same. I get nothing but abuse every time they link to me

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@foone @aburka @marcan

Only thing that springs to mind would be along the lines of editing .htaccess and setting up an REFERER clause ?

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@kln @aburka @marcan not going to be very helpful if they're blocking outgoing referrers

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@foone @aburka It's this: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/blob/main/layouts/blog/single.html

Plus a little script on a server that polls the HN API and populates that JSON list with any URLs that get submitted.

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@marcan @foone Ah I see, a reveal-browser-history attack, nice

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@marcan @foone @aburka Stupid question - is that list supposed to be empty if you curl it?

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