Dead Celebrities Thread

[agentzero]

OnlyFans owner dies aged 43

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-dies-aged-43/


Non paywall
https://archive.UU/XtzUA

That archive website, along with archive dot today, archive dot is and the other domains are Russian. They are blocked from corporate devices and blacklisted. They are known for distributing malware.

It has since been changed, it had code for yandex.ru VK.ru and mail.ru also other known Russian websites. A quick search online and you'll find a lot of content on this. It does make sense, as it was bypassing paywalls.

[ladymuck]

I just use it to avoid paying money to the Torygraph. HWMBO uses it when he wants to share things from the NYT. Neither of us ever had any issues with malware as a result. But each should do their own risk assessment of any URL posted in a public forum.

[agentzero]

I don't understand your point. Your anecdote that you haven't received malware, how do you know? You don't.

The archive URL you mentioned and others are now blocked from corporate devices, due to low reputation on trusted blocklist websites used across the world. Wikipedia has blocked them all too and actively disallows using them as references. If you don't see a problem with your "I get free content so I don't care" approach, there's something wrong with you if you work in IT, which I'm sure you do from your past posts. If you don't quite understand how to view what's loading on a web page, use the NoScript plugin and U Block Origin, which will show the webpages regularly loading .ru domains.

You don't get anything for free.

[ladymuck]

I have browser plug ins to block scripts. Nothing loads without me knowing about it but maybe not everything gets blocked because the plug ins can't detect them. How would I know? I sometimes open websites in isolated browser instances on virtual machines if I'm really not sure about them.

Maybe it's possible my PC is riddled with malware and my daily scans are unable to see it. Again, how would I know if I'm not receiving demands for bitcoin to regain access to my PC that I'm fully in control of?

I think I take enough precautions but, sure, carry on lecturing me.

If you don't like the website, don't click the link.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Desmond Morris, 98, "The Naked Ape" and "Zooquest" chap.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51y797v200o

I was listening this very afternoon to last Saturday's Archive Hour about "The Naked Ape" book.

[Croesus]

I just use it to avoid paying money to the Torygraph. HWMBO uses it when he wants to share things from the NYT. Neither of us ever had any issues with malware as a result. But each should do their own risk assessment of any URL posted in a public forum.

Here's a nice little tip for you that works for me with the Torygraph - on desktop and tablet, at least.

Access the article and then whilst it's still rendering, hit the stop/cancel icon on the horizontal menu of your browser.

You'll get all the readable content minus, maybe, one or two graphics. Cancelling before the page has completely rendered seems to stop that "Sign up to read this article" overlay that stops you from being able to read anything.

Just can't do this on mobile as chrome mobile version doesn't have anything you can click on to cancel.

[NickFitz]

I don’t bother following links to the Torygraph, but the Grauniad has started doing an annoying overlay about something or other. So I created this bookmarklet which lets me click a “Grauniad” button in my browser's “Favourites” toolbar and remove it:

javascript:void(document.documentElement.classList.remove("sp-message-open")%20||%20document.querySelector("[id^='sp_message_container']").parentElement.removeChild(document.querySelector("[id^='sp_message_container']")))

It should be quite straightforward to make something similar for the Torygraph; this is left as an exercise for the reader

(By the way, that article about bookmarklets I linked to up there is very good, but I’ve been using them on just about every browser since the days of Netscape Navigator and I’ve never once had to URL-encode them myself - the %20 encoding of spaces in the code above was done automatically by Safari. As the article says, it’s seldom necessary, so I wouldn’t worry about that step if you’re inspired to experiment.)

[xoggoth]

I put a similar one line comment in onload to remove the invalid credential strip in Bing maps.