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Comment by akaitea | Hacker News Reader

Thanks Sony, I had no idea this site existed until now

Went to check out the site (Canna.to) and it wouldn't load. Then I wondered what Upstream DNS I was using on my pi-hole... sure enough, Quad9.

Then I went to load the site on my phone, and it tried to open 98 popups...

> ... it tried to open 98 popups...

You need to install the uBlock Origin extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... (and if you know some web development, the uMatrix extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ ). Best used with Firefox or Palemoon browser. I have it on my browser and saw zero pop-ups.

it _tried_ to open. it did not succeed.

I have brave with uBlock and other than a "site is insecure" warning it loaded just fine, no pop ups. Those still exist?

operator probably realized the traffic surge and decided to monetize tru ranking up ads

No popups on me on the desktop FF, but I have strict security enabled. No uBlock bullshit.

Their "unfiltered" DNS (9.9.9.10) still resolves the domain:

$ dig canna.to @9.9.9.9

[...]

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52168

[...]

$ dig canna.to @9.9.9.10

[...]

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20506

[...]

;; ANSWER SECTION:

canna.to. 300 IN A 46.148.26.194

[...]

I tried to make use of a new site to know about but I can't even figure out why anyone would use this instead of just grabbing songs off of youtube with youtube-dl or Newpipe. This feels like music piracy circa right before Napster.

Just saw "Est 1999" on the top of the page. Guess they get a pass for old site design.

Quintessential Streisand Effect.

I assume Sony was just trying to hit this site with the Slashdot effect by taking this action as an indirect DDOS.

Thanks, I've now joined their Telegram channel. Always nice to have a resource for current music. Thank you again Sony.

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