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This morning, I took a quick look at the website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, https://www.venganza.org. I got a very short web page: "You Are Banned." text centered on the top line. Hmm. Was their website down? What's going on? I tried a proxy website, and that worked. Checking with Chrome (I use Firefox), I had no trouble viewing the web site. I ran Firefox under another user account, and had no problem viewing the website that way either. On the user account with the problem, I could view other pages on the FSM website, eg. https://www.venganza.org/join/ but when I hit the Home button on the FSM site, I got the "You Are Banned." message again.
And then, as I continued to investigate, things mysteriously just started working. Pulling up another window in the browser, I was able to see the FSM site. I hit refresh on the page with the message and the site came up like it should, no more strange message. On the one hand, no more problem is nice, but I really wanted to learn how my browser had been compromised. Cookies? Add-ons? Some other website I visited? Maybe it's not my browser, it is the FSM site after all, doing some sort of browser fingerprinting? Or, could it be my ISP? A quick search for "You Are Banned." in the page source turned up nothing.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:07AM (1 child)
I got the "You are banned" message, but simply hitting reload gets the website. I think it is probably just to mess with bots/robots.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:52PM
I'd tell him to keep his noodly appendage to himself :-)
If it's any consolation, it's WordPress, even $DIETY herself can't get that shit to work properly all the time.
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