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It's still hacked according to live scans. Not everybody is going to see the re-directed content. Instead of typing the address into your browser bar, try clicking on a Google link. Many web browsers will disregard the "cloaked" content but when you click on a search engine link the hacked data is no longer cloaked to the browser. I've tried a few different search engines and I get the online pharmacy ads instead of Punaweb, but I don't if I just type punaweb into my browser manually.
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www.punaweb.org
This site may be hacked.
Support 24. Citalopram used for anxiety. Augmentin reni. Mircette alternatives. Phenergan zc 01. Estrace cause yeast infection. Prednisone hunger. Periactin ...
^^^ cut and paste from google. What happens if you try to click on the punaweb.org link?
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What happens if you try to click on the punaweb.org link?
If I search Google for "punaweb" and click on the punaweb.org link in the search results, I get an add for pharmaceuticals.
If I type "punaweb.org" into the address bar, I get the actual Punaweb site.
Unfortunately, the default behavior for modern browsers is to treat everything as a google search. This can be changed in the relevant settings.
All technologies are eventually turned into an advertising medium, and since advertisers pay more, that's what you get. Spam email, hijacked websites, junk texts, robocalls.
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Ah, on a real PC I see what you are talking about. Thanks Terracore.
This is why we should have stuck with gopher or HTML 1.0...
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This is why we should have stuck with gopher or HTML 1.0...
We could also just use DNS for its intended purpose.
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This was never fixed from a couple years ago. You can search for the same topic/keywords on Punaweb.
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Interesting outcome from this is that it allowed me to test the ad blocking capabilities of the various web browsers by going to the punaweb link from google. Results:
Chrome: canadian pharmacy
Explorer: canadian pharmacy
Firefox: canadian pharmacy
Firefox with Adblock Plus running: canadian pharmacy
Brave: punaweb.org
Brave is a relatively new browser that has ad killing built into it's core function and since it isn't wasting any of your system resources helping Big Tech spy on you, pages load faster (sometimes, MUCH faster). It also has an option where you can enable the blocked ads to be substituted with Brave ads that are static and do not sell any of your data to the advertisers but you get paid in crypto currency for allowing the ad to appear on your screen. You can either donate your earned crypto to content creators or you can bank it. I enabled the ad substitution feature but so far have not seen a single ad. I understand that the crypto payment part of it is under development.
https://brave.com/
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OSX Safari works fine.
Cheers,
Kirt
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Originally posted by knieft
OSX Safari works fine.
Cheers,
Kirt
Thanks for the remind. PC Safari goes to Canadian pharmacy. Also need to add, I didn't initially understand how Brave works, sometimes when you are browsing a tiny window appears in the lower right hand screen indicating an ad is available. If you ignore it, it goes away, if you click on it, you are sent to an advertiser web site in different window. So far I've been credited about 3 cents for every ad that I've allowed to be opened. It's definitely not an income generator, but it is intriguing to be treated as a potential asset, rather than a product, of Big Tech. I can also see how if one was a content creator, getting 3 cent donations from a million followers is a year's income.
Also, it allows you to easily use Tor (built-in) , which gives similar privacy to VPN but the only cost is slower browsing
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Lynx in a 24x80 Xterm configured with green text on a black background.
Now get off my lawn.
