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the original redirected to the softcore image and then the web archive link tried to rip my eardrums.

this kind of adversarial 'defence' (attack) is new to me, maybe i'm naive but i didn't like it.

dang, please block these links.

what's the alternative?

archive.org

It was just demonstrated upthread that archive.org doesn't work for this purpose.

Just open a new tab and paste the link in.

or another browser

Ugh... that worked, but I gave up once I got to the home page.

To quote the late, great, Ray Arnold...

"I hate this Hacker crap!"

It also sets a HN=1 cookie, so you may need to clear that or use incognito

I see. I'm using Firefox's containers feature and that prevented the cookie from carrying over.

He’s had that in place for years. Yes, it’s special treatment for visitors from HN.

such information leak just means your browser isn't private enough