@aral They are. Wimps with no conscience or imagination. In short: dicks.

@aral I just close any site that pulls that shit.
They don't deserve my eyeballs.

@aral what I say to these sites 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕get. Rekt.

@aral hang on the channel.io people named their ai agent *ALF?* like the fucking alien that eats cats from that one sitcom?

@aral sites that do that are not worth visiting. I just move on.

@aral Thanks for raising this. It is such a dick move by those developers 😞

@aral Could it be reported as malware?

@aral Amen. Fuck those assholes.

@aral
I don't see it?
Does it affect uBlock Origin

@aral You must be using only network-based ad blocking (not browser-based ad blocking), or using an inadequate blocker or a browser which doesn't support full-featured blockers. The malicious script causing the redirect is already blocked by this built-in #uBlockOrigin filters.

It looks like you're using Safari. Try Firefox or one of its AI-free derivatives instead, and install uBlock Origin.

https://ublockorigin.com

@aral Huh. I can't replicate that. Seems by adblocker is blocking it.

@aral
Bastards. Nice of them to recommend ad blockers to use though 😉

@aral Yeah, please disable your ad blockers. We need you to be prone to malwaretisement (malware advertisements).

Don't you folks know that our friends who created the Predator or Intellexa malware can't install it unless you folks allow ads... so selfish of y'all? /s off #ffs 😮‍💨 So uncool on so many layers.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/eu_spyware_funding/

https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/predator-spyware-firm-intellexa-resurgent-after-u-s-sanctions/

https://www.amnesty.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Executive-Summary_Predator-Files_English-1.pdf

https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.predator

@aral they'll find that all this will do is drop readership. It's what's been happening forever with the adblock blockers, yet they still don't get why

@aral can you give me the full URL of one of these (minus any params) please? I want to test a few things.

@aral Ah, I've seen this one. It's a bit extreme, but sometimes you can get around this by disabling scripts on the given site. It'll remove some functionality, but if you're just looking to read something, it still works!