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Comment by AdmiralAsshat | Hacker News Reader

Misread the title to mean that They Live inspired the concept of adblocking in general. Which would have been an interesting coincidence, since it did inspire one of the early Mozilla logos. [0]

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...

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Did something nefarious happen to your link?

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN?

And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o...

So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

Just open a new tab and paste the link in.

or another browser

Ugh... that worked, but I gave up once I got to the home page.

To quote the late, great, Ray Arnold...

"I hate this Hacker crap!"

It also sets a HN=1 cookie, so you may need to clear that or use incognito

I see. I'm using Firefox's containers feature and that prevented the cookie from carrying over.

http://archive.is/UMMCx

dang, please block these links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

what's the alternative?

archive.org

It was just demonstrated upthread that archive.org doesn't work for this purpose.

the original redirected to the softcore image and then the web archive link tried to rip my eardrums.

this kind of adversarial 'defence' (attack) is new to me, maybe i'm naive but i didn't like it.

He’s had that in place for years. Yes, it’s special treatment for visitors from HN.

such information leak just means your browser isn't private enough

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