This has come up on the list earlier and sadly no changes were made. The anti-scraping is too aggressive and there is no reason it HAS TO redirect to theannoyingsite. It does not annoy bots, only humans who accidentally get caught by it. I get "trolling botz lol" and fully agree with the need for self-defense but this is trolling the wrong targets.
I would also like to ask once again in line with Strahinja's message to change the redirect to something else. 23 Jan 2026 22:37:15 Страхиња Радић <[email protected]>: > Дана 26/01/23 11:44AM, Adam Van Ymeren написа: >> I followed a link from undeadly.org and got redirected to the aptly >> named theannoyingsite.com >> >> Suffice to say this is pretty annoying, and in my opinion hurts the >> credibility of the project and of sites like undeadly.org that try to >> link to interesting things. >> >> This appears to be intentional based upon whether some stale ipk= >> param is in the url. > > It also happens when the browser doesn't supply the referrer header. > > https://marc.info/?t=176402576800001&r=1&w=2 > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176406809623993&w=2 > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176408086402658&w=2 > > tl;dr: It's an anti-spam/anti-scraping measure.
