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siguza

@siguza@infosec.space

iOS hacker, security researcher, 0day enthusiast.
Sometimes RE tools / jailbreak / write-up author.
And accidental maintainer of ever more things I didn't ask for.

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siguza , to random
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People are currently dunking on this post that complains about Mastodon link previews DDoSing their servers - and they deserve every bit of it.

Pulling up this site in a browser with no privacy/sanity plugins installed, it made a total of 3740 requests within 4 minutes, which amounted to 267.22 MB transferred. It has ads left, right, bottom and center, and it has one of those annoying autoplaying videos, which ALSO has a video ad in front of it. The website would not scroll even close to fluently, and I'm doing this on a 24-core M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128 GB RAM. I had to use the debugger command in the JS console in order to make the network panel in dev tools stop lagging.

In addition, they quote someone complaining about 114.7 MB being requested from their server over the span of 5 minutes. Not only is that less than half as much as you make a single user download if they don't actively cut into your bloatware crap, it also amounts to a whopping 3.06 Mbit/s that you're complaining about. THREE MEGABITS PER SECOND!

Your website is an insult to the internet.

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/?cache=bust

18+ siguza OP ,
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Screenshot of the section of the website between the title and the beginning of the text. It's a photo of Richard Stallman that is definitely not in square aspect ratio but being squished into a square format, so his face is all stretched like that boy from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The image is also photoshopped to give him a Jesus-like halo, but it's just an orange circle like in those old paintings from when people didn't have any painting skills. It's on green background with white text saying "richard stallman" in lowercase. There's also overlay text saying "Only a true Stallman Fan Can Score 🏆 100% 🏆​" as if that were a good thing. There's some junk at the top that is presumably supposed to look like Instagram UI elements or smth? I can only assume this is what "Insta story" refers to, as I've never been on that hellsite. There's a green button labeled "START QUIZ" near the bottom. And of course there's an ad below it.
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