Instagram's URL Blackhole

written-beyond 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I want to thank you dear poster and author, I feel genuinely refreshed reading a short interesting post sans status quo topic.

Waiting for the next part!

	▲	0______0 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Right? It's so short and...just ends. Been too fatigued reading essays on just about everything. I loved this one.

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hdjY28 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

FOA means “family of apps”. Source: Meta’s quarterly earning reports

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samename 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ironic the Apple App store allows a "phone antivirus" to exist.

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halapro 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Curated App Store, they said. Might have been true in 2010

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xp84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Almost unbelievable that they allow this - except of course they do, because scamware makes a ton of money via in-app purchase, and Apple gets 30%, so of course they do. I'm sure people will come out of the woodwork now to white knight for Apple and spin this somehow. But anything that offends their business model can be removed in minutes, while software that by its title violates the App Store rules is just here indefinitely.

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ronsor 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funnily enough that's given as an example of a prohibited type of app in their review guidelines.

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krackers 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But it's rated 4.4 stars! I'm guessing it hoovers your contacts and tries to get you to sign up for the IAP subscription.

	▲	jsheard 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The meta these days is bundling dodgy SDKs which turn the device into a residential proxy, which then gets sold on to the highest bidder. Mostly AI companies, whose desire to scrape literally everything has driven demand for that type of malware into the stratosphere.

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est an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's fun and all, is there a way to safely host .html but does not allow rendering it?

CORS? sec-fetch-dest, sec-fetch-mode and sec-fetch-site ?

If storage.googleapis.com weren't operated by Google, the domain would be blocked by Google's "Safe Browsing" long time ago.

	▲	gruez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Serve it with content-type set to text/plain and browsers won't try to render it. You can try a random html file on github. If you click raw it'll get rendered as text.

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selridge 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ironic seeing this as a medium post.

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neya 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How does Apple allow this? Here I thought the App Store was supposedly superior to the Android eco-system and that's why Apple justified the insane 30% tax on developers back then

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alex1138 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought this was going to be about how links have become harder and harder to follow on Insta. The login walls got progressively stronger (it feels like) and now it's just hard blocked

Sorry, Zuck. Not signing up for Insta, though you probably made a shadow profile of me

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paulpauper 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol "your iphone is severely damaged by viruses"

Facebook was known to aggressively filter URLs too if posted too often.