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Comment by perihelions | Hacker News Reader

Speaking of paranoid, that link you've posted, isn't that a link to a server that's known to be compromised, and also an apparent watering hole for crypto wallet holders? Am I unreasonable in thinking that's a very scary link?

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1. Disable JavaScript.

2. Access (almost) any website in the internet

3. ?????

4. Profit

edit: Mastodon doesn't work without JavaScript, holy hell. We truly are living in a dystopia. Thankfully you can still access his profile from another trusted instance such as mastodon.social at https://mastodon.social/@lukedashjr@bitcoinhackers.org

I always have JavaScript disabled by default (uMatrix policy), but (0) there's many other attack vectors, to my layman understanding, and (1) at any rate that one's a Mastodon instance and those are blank pages without JS.

I'm electing to add new URL regexps to my uBlock filters, to reduce the risk of accidentally clicking a link similar to this. I don't think I want to visit any web domain that caters to people who hold crypto wallets.

    /.*coin.*/
    /.*crypto.*/
    /.*eth.*/

Are you’re (0) and (1) supposed to be citations? If so I’m interested and you forgot to add them.

I think he is numbering his bullet points from zero.

> one's a Mastodon instance and those are blank pages without JS

Not all of them. Those still running Mastodon v3.5 (rather than v4.0) seem to work fine.

> https://mastodon.social/@lukedashjr@bitcoinhackers.org

This just redirects me back to <https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr>.

Interesting, you might need to it yourself through the UI then, just copy everything after the slash and paste into the search of any trusted Mastodon instance and it should load the profile through there. Not sure why the URL redirects to the other instance.

Mastodon not working without JS is a complete joke. I hope its popularity is stymied until this is fixed.

Dunno, it's unclear if that Mastodon instance is hosted on his compromised servers.

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