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The tiny circuits forum seems to have an issue where opening a link to it when searching on google leads to a spam site selling viagra. I searched for “tiny circuits forum bootloader”.

I tried to inform them on their forum, but I didnt want to create an account. So hopefully they will see it here.

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Hi - this is Ken from TinyCircuits, thanks for mentioning that, it's the first we've seen it. Seems to be a redirect on search results, I'm looking into this now. It seems if you go directly on the forum you can find the topic, but not if linked in from Google. Hope to have it resolved quickly.

This is Ken again - thanks again for pointing this out, we have gotten it resolved and the forum is cleaned now. There was a malware redirect on links coming in from search engines.

This is called pharma hacking and it's big business. If you can exploit a website's SEO ranking to get yourself a boost, you can profit.

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