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 <sr@strahinja.org>:
> 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.
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