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US House candidate buys nazis.us domain to redirect visitors to homeland security (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

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[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ after it first reported on nazis.us that her agency, which houses ICE, had “successfully blocked the redirect” by Thursday morning. However, as of late Saturday, typing nazis.us into a web browser led users to the Homeland Security website at dhs.gov.

Lol still redirects as of this morning.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same here. There are techniques one could use to obscure the referrer and I'm glad this guy's tech people know them ❤️

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How could you possibly block a redirect?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Browsers send a referrer header by default, which includes the url that led them to make the request.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

So it'll just block the request?