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Nation Wary Of Suddenly Usable Website - The Onion

theonion.com Nation Wary Of Suddenly Usable Website

CHICAGO—Expressing deep apprehension about how such a thing could ever come to pass, the U.S. populace confirmed Thursday that it was deeply wary of a suddenly usable website. “So what’s the catch here—they’re trying to make it look nice so they can steal my information?” said Bronx resident Alison ...

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It's very Onion of them that I got two modern day, fully content-obscuring pop-ups on mobile when I clicked the link
- just sayin'...
  
  I’m not 100% sure, but I think anyone with that code can use your dns profile
- Why aren't you using an ad blocker?
"Hopefully the content still treats me like a dipshit who only matters as a vector to drive revenue. Otherwise, this is just plain creepy.”

Yep. Anything else is just too good to be true.
At press time, the nation had reportedly blocked the confusing website and navigated back to Forbes.com, where it felt safe.

Lol, zing!

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