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minus-squarefullofredgoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 days agohttps://archive.is/20250831142954/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/31/age-verification-uk-porn-sites/
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down10·edit-22 days agoThis website redirects to Russian porn for me now. UPDATE: Apparently I’m not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1n4z754/firefox_redirecting_archivetoday_to_russian_porn/
minus-squarezarathustra0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 days agoSort your DNS, your machine (and possibly your life) out.
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI’ll check out some possibilities. I’m using NextDNS so I’m quite surprised by this.
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYeah that is bizarre, maybe malware or a malicious browser addon?
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agousing Firefox on my phone with DNS over HTTPS. I’ll keep triaging.
https://archive.is/20250831142954/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/31/age-verification-uk-porn-sites/
This website redirects to Russian porn for me now.
UPDATE: Apparently I’m not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1n4z754/firefox_redirecting_archivetoday_to_russian_porn/
Sort your DNS, your machine (and possibly your life) out.
I’ll check out some possibilities. I’m using NextDNS so I’m quite surprised by this.
Yeah that is bizarre, maybe malware or a malicious browser addon?
using Firefox on my phone with DNS over HTTPS. I’ll keep triaging.