As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
Was the blocklist App wide or was it only in the app for the tessaract adjacent instances? I am struggling to understand how far the block list was effective.
It affected everyone using the app, no matter the instance. For example, if me, a resident of programming.dev, tried to look for the mod_abuse or power_tripping communities of any instance, I would see no results. If you tried to connect as a user from any of the blacklisted instances, the app wouldn’t even work
Regarding the frontend, seems it also worked “behind the scenes” on the browser, which is stated in the post I linked in that quote. Unfortunately, the github links are all 404 now.