On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:34:37 +0100
Страхиња Радић <sr@strahinja.org> 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.
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