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Websites stole and monetized a free browser game, so the designer replaced it with Goatse (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"It has been one of my greatest achievements as a dev".

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[–] [email protected] 414 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"The mature and responsible thing to do would have been to add a content security policy to the page", he wrote. "I am not mature so instead what I decided to do was render the early 2000s internet shock image Goatse with a nice message superimposed over it in place of the app if Sqword detects that it is in an iFrame."

I submit the Internet axiom of: there's times and places for a measured and reasonable response, and the other times are funny af.

Let this be a lesson to you—if you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn't yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time. One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.

Bravo.

[–] [email protected] 225 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Risky click of the day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You are now stinking with portals

[–] phx 144 points 1 year ago

Also, the iFrame is particularly asshole'ish in that the original author's site is still out the bandwidth for content, but somebody else is making money off it.

I fully support his response. Personally, I'd love to see the same done to certain scraper-bots