On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:34:37 +0100 Страхиња Радић <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Some scrapers, like Wget's recursive mode, send out referers by default, making this ineffective.
