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minus-squarefullofredgoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 day agohttps://archive.is/20250831142954/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/31/age-verification-uk-porn-sites/
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down10·edit-21 day 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-down1·1 day agoSort your DNS, your machine (and possibly your life) out.
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI’ll check out some possibilities. I’m using NextDNS so I’m quite surprised by this.
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoYeah that is bizarre, maybe malware or a malicious browser addon?
minus-squareTechnoCat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day 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.