posted on Nov, 22 2013 @ 07:03 PM
tothetenthpower
reply to post by EvillerBob
Yup,
cloudflare-watch.org...
That's the actual website where I pulled that quote from.
Doesn't seem malicious as far as I can tell. Could have been an auto re-route from something in your cookies. If you use a service like HotSpot
Shield or another proxy type service it could have bounced you for that reason.
~Tenth
That's intriguing because the linked website still times out when I try to access it.
While I do use proxies/TOR and various oddities, I run them in a virtual machine on a separate laptop.
On this machine I run Firefox in a sandbox (www.sandboxie.com, in fact) which gets deleted and reset on a regular basis. The last time was a few days
ago, which limits (but does not preclude) a cookie issue of some kind, though I don't quite see how it would be cookie-related.
I understand that cloudflare is a "security" system of some kind which could be responsible for blocking access from an IP that was considered risky.
My ISP has most of their subscribers sitting behind a shared IP so it is certainly possible that a few users were doing something that triggered a
response. The site in the address bar, however, was not cloudflare itself but some kind of "we hate cloudflare" organisation which is why it seems...
odd.
To the user who has had a similar problem, thank you for backing me up. I already know I'm mad for entirely different reasons
EDITED TO ADD:
Aha. I'm not as stupid as I thought. I just realised I copied and pasted the exact line from the address bar into notepad.
The address bar said: htt[p://cloudflare]-watch.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi
Is there any kind of "code tag" because I don't want that to turn into a live link? I've added square brackets into the first part of the url to
prevent it linking.
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