Surely SDF doesn’t advertise? False positives?

  • @hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    161 year ago

    Can you link to the problematic pages so I can confirm? I’m browsing the front page of lemmy.sdf.org right now and the first few links I clicked on had nothing blocked. There is only 1 domain connected when viewing your post directly, and 27 domains connected on blahaj (assuming its our emojis) with 0 blocked. What adlists are you using?

      • @hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        201 year ago

        From the URL alone, pictrs might be referring to https://lib.rs/crates/pict-rs. I’ve seen talk about pict-rs being used as the image backend in Lemmy as found here. When I inspect the thumbnails of posts on lemmy.sdf.org the URLs are in a similar format. I think its picking up links to images on other instances.

        I checked my logger and got a red hit for https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3b51f06d-2714-4fac-8a90-79f5f1397c7d.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 and while it looks concerning, the column with the rule says /^https?:\/\/[0-9a-z]{5,}\.(digital|website|life|guru|space)\/[a-z0-9]{6,}\//$xhr,3p,from=~127.0.0.1|~bitrix24.life|~ccc.ac|~jacksonchen666.com|~lemmy.world|~localhost|~mempool.space|~scribble.ninja|~scribble.website|~spacepub.space|~traineast.co.uk so it was just a pattern match on a bunch of domain TLDs commonly used for scams or ads. With the recent increase in Lemmy’s popularity, server owners are buying up cheap domains that fall within those TLDs and you’re likely to be seeing one of those.

        • @vext01OP
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          91 year ago

          Thanks for the detailed explanation!

      • @vext01OP
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        61 year ago

        Could it be one of the communities has dodgy posts that link off to sites ublock doesn’t like?

        • @wxboss
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          -201 year ago

          So, you’re making an assertion that you cannot validate or prove.

          Next time, try asking a question first if you are uncertain about something instead of leading with a statement that could be calumnious.

          • @vext01OP
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            51 year ago

            What? Me? I did ask I question. You replied to it :P

            • @wxboss
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              1 year ago

              Actually, you made a claim without any explanatory information, and people (such as myself) were seeking clarification.

              • xigoi
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                61 year ago

                They made a guess and clearly portrayed it as such.

              • @vext01OP
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                61 year ago

                I don’t think I did.

                I asked if SDF was advertising.

                The post reads:

                Surely SDF doesn’t advertise? False positives?

                Nothing assertive about that. Pretty clear that I was unsure what was happening!

  • @wxboss
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    51 year ago

    If true, this is a bit disturbing. However, I run uBlock in my browser and don’t recall seeing any blocking attempts when on this instance. Do you have any specific details?

    • @vext01OP
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      21 year ago

      See my other reply.