Tootfinder

An Indicator analysis of 85 AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors, may generate up to $36M annually, and rely on Big Tech services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-…

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

Pro-Cambodian hacktivists launch attacks on Thai government sites amid border dispute https://therecord.media/pro-cambodian-hacktivists-target-thai-websites-amid-border-dispute

Let’s just for a second – purely hypothetical, of course – suppose there was a podcast where some random guy talks to people from the web community about their personal websites and what they’re curious and passionate about.
Who would you love to see as a guest? 🤔

Medien werden in der Google Suche kaum noch gefunden
AI Overview in der Suche und die weiteren KI-Tools von Google sorgen dafür, dass bei vielen Websites der Traffic einbricht. Denn vielfach entfällt durch etwa die KI-Übersichten in der Suche die Notwendigkeit, überhaupt noch eine Website aufzurufen.
Damit droht das Ende des Journalismus und leichtes Spiel für Manipulatoren.
Via #savesocial

Google AI Overview sorgt offenbar für massive Traffic-Einbrüche bei vielen Websites
Über viele Jahre war es eine Symbiose: Die Suchmaschine von Google hat Besucher zu Websites geleitet, die Verlage haben die Inhalte ...

@… Right!? Totally unexpected, and incredibly welcome. I wish there was more of this kind of completely candid ranting on corporate websites.

Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

Which #hamRadio lighthouse activation program do US hams usually do?
I will soon be near Oak Island Lighthouse in North Carolina, which is WLOTA 1247 and ARLHS USA-558. The websites for WLOTA and ARLHS both appear to be in something of a state of disrepair, so it's not clear to me how active either program really is. I also can't tell if they tend to operate outside of contest wee…

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. On Monday, NASA announced it would not host the National Climate Assessments, reversing earlier plans. These reports detail climate impacts across the U.S. and were previously available on government websites that went offline earlier this month. NASA stated it has no legal obligation to host the data. Critics, including scientists, accuse the administration of trying to …

Web-Browsing LLMs Can Access Social Media Profiles and Infer User Demographics
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi, Zeynab Samei, Mohsen Mosleh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12372

Web-Browsing LLMs Can Access Social Media Profiles and Infer User Demographics
Large language models (LLMs) have traditionally relied on static training data, limiting their knowledge to fixed snapshots. Recent advancements, however, have equipped LLMs with web browsing capabilities, enabling real time information retrieval and multi step reasoning over live web content. While prior studies have demonstrated LLMs ability to access and analyze websites, their capacity to directly retrieve and analyze social media data remains unexplored. Here, we evaluate whether web brows…

Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls
Rahat Masood, Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram, Alex Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11908 ht…

Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls
With the increasing concerns around privacy and the enforcement of data privacy laws, many websites now provide users with privacy controls. However, locating these controls can be challenging, as they are frequently hidden within multiple settings and layers. Moreover, the lack of standardization means these controls can vary widely across services. The technical or confusing terminology used to describe these controls further complicates users' ability to understand and use them effectively. …

An Online A/B Testing Decision Support System for Web Usability Assessment Based on a Linguistic Decision-making Methodology: Case of Study a Virtual Learning Environment
Noe Zerme\~no, Cristina Zuheros, Lucas Daniel Del Rosso Calache, Francisco Herrera, Rosana Montes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12118

An Online A/B Testing Decision Support System for Web Usability Assessment Based on a Linguistic Decision-making Methodology: Case of Study a Virtual Learning Environment
In recent years, attention has increasingly focused on enhancing user satisfaction with user interfaces, spanning both mobile applications and websites. One fundamental aspect of human-machine interaction is the concept of web usability. In order to assess web usability, the A/B testing technique enables the comparison of data between two designs. Expanding the scope of tests to include the designs being evaluated, in conjunction with the involvement of both real and fictional users, presents a…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Minnesota lawmaker’s alleged killer had list of data broker websites in car, FBI says https://therecord.media/alleged-killer-minnesota-lawmaker-data-brokers-list

Interesting numbers about US top websites.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-us-monthly-3/

Top 50 news websites in the US: AP shrugs off Trump row with huge traffic boost
Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.

More slides about the 2028 Total #SolarEclipse from Terry Cuttle at the SEC - and about coming attractions down under. Relevant websites: https://eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/ and https://www.eclipse.aaq.org.au/ 16/n

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

Capitalism − Big Tech − single points of failure https://mas.to/@nemo/114676003248609889

The return of web rings.
https://serverless.industries/2025/05/27/webring.en.html

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach Datenlecks bei Hunderten Restaurant-Seiten: Datenschutzbehörde prüft Panne

Made provisions and updated license restrictions for The vOICe web app to ensure that in case of political turmoil it can be revived at a later stage even if all its websites or even the whole Internet Archive would go down https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice2.htm…

"Wer nur auf den großen Plattformen von #TikTok bis #YouTube und auf den Websites der großen Publisher unterwegs ist, dem mag das egal sein. Aber wer das #Internet wegen seiner Vielfalt schätzt und wegen seine…

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

»Static Site Generators - Hugo:
Hugo ist einer der beliebtesten Open-Source-Generatoren für statische Websites. Mit seiner erstaunlichen Geschwindigkeit und Flexibilität macht das Erstellen von Websites mit Hugo wieder Spaß.«
Ich pers. bevorzuge Zola, da ich ein Rust Fanboy bin und es extrem schnell ist aber im allgemeinen sind jegliche statische Seiten in den meisten Fällen absolut ausreichend.
🌐

Serie: Static Site Generators - Hugo (Teil 1)
Hugo ist einer der beliebtesten Open-Source-Generatoren für statische Websites. Mit seiner erstaunlichen Geschwindigkeit und Flexibilität macht das Erstellen von Websites mit Hugo wieder Spaß.

It is simply unbelievable how #enshittification has ruined all of Docker’s websites and is still making them worse and worse. As a part-time user of Docker’s #OpenSource components, usually doing what I think should be regarded most basic and elementary stuff, I cannot find the few snipp…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

I forgot that I need to add "RewriteBase /" to the .htaccess when using Datenstrom Yellow (#cms

We’re learning how to create and share MEDIA in our “Creating Cool Websites” summer camp! Today we are adding AUDIO with Vocaroo to our “Favorite Animals”
Google Sites, and starting our “City Travel webpage” project with Adobe Express!
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/sum…

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Cool Websites
These are resources for "Creating Cool Websites," a June 23 - 27, 2025 summer camp led by Dr. Wes Fryer. SHARE A LINK! (Google Form) - View Our Links! Camp Structure (Daily Schedule - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM) 9:00–9:15: Greeting & Introduction to Design Process / Today's Focus 9:15–10:00: Skill

O.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n

Hi hi!! I really need some #MutualAid!!
I’m trying to find the full 45-minute documentary “The Anarchist Rabbi” (2014) by Adam Kossoff.
This movie is a documentary about Rudolf Rocker, a German anarchist who worked with Jewish migrants in London’s East End, and it’s narrated by Steven Berkoff.
Here’s the movie on IMDb and similar websites:
- IMDb:

Wat heb je toch een fijne websites. // Qué sitios web mšs buenos hay.
// What fine websites are out there.
#photography

Google has been downgrading the search results of smaller web sites offering human-written quality information, claims Nate Hake of Travel Lemming in a long explanation, citing many sources and developments.
Many of these changes appear to happen when #Google embraced #AI and removed the "hum…

A German court ruled Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
The court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Spannende Effekte, die #LLM auf mein Leben haben: ich reaktiviere alte Geräte, ggf. zur Weitergabe an andere. Liegt soviel rum, was mangels Anleitungen oder wegen kleinen Macken nicht genutzt wird. Mit KI ist Diagnose Zeug wieder zum laufen bringen so einfach wie nie für mich. Original-Websites schon tot, Links kaputt, aber es ist irgendwie im Modell...

Websites expand ancestry records of enslaved people (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/19/websites-expand-ancestry-records-enslaved-people
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p17#a250619p17

I’m quoted here regarding the ethics in not disclosing to students and defense contractors that their information may have been leaked in an Indiana University data breach. Still no word of a third party investigator being engaged. Dear Internet, do your thing.
https://www.

Administrator says IU will never explain IT security breach publicly
For more than three weeks, Indiana University websites have been down, disrupting and frustrating the university community.

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/clou

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

I find the @… #firefox #addon very useful: It just takes one click to archive the website you're on. It's also easy to find archived vers…

📰 Seit Jahren betreibe ich Websites mit kostenlosen Informationen zu vielen Themen – und ich bezahle die #Rechnungen. Dazu benutze ich u. a. Amazon-Partnerlinks. Ich würde diese #Finanzierung gern loswerden, aber dazu benötige ich Eure Hilfe!
Bitte unterstütze meine Arbeit mit einer St…

KlimaCrew
Ich informiere über Zukunftsthemen, um Menschen vor Risiken zu warnen und Fortschritte sichtbar zu machen.

Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

I recently bought a fan. You know, because it's hot.
I really wanted something decent, so I spent 3 hours researching the market, tracking down whitelabel products and their resellers, checking brand websites and "data sheets". I queried trade registers to find out from where and for how long they have been operating and which brands belong to them. I also used the internet archive to trace supplier changes over time.
This is completely normal, right?
I call it…

quick and easy way to build a website for your r package: #rstats #package

Wireless Home Automation Using Social Networking Websites
Divya Alok Gupta, Dwith Chenna, B. Aditya Vighnesh Ramakanth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22482 htt…

Wireless Home Automation Using Social Networking Websites
With the advent of Internet of Things, Wireless Home Automation Systems WHAS are gradually gaining popularity. These systems are faced with multiple challenges such as security; controlling a variety of home appliances with a single interface and user friendliness. In this paper we propose a system that uses secure authentication systems of social networking websites such as Twitter, tracks the end-users activities on the social network and then control his or her domestic appliances. At the en…

In case you missed it: This September will be … smashing! 😻💚
@… is coming back to Freiburg on September 8–11, and I’m thrilled and honoured (and a bit baffled) to be part of this incredible lineup! Get your tickets, friends! 🔥😁

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

Those that poop on AI chatbots for websites have never had to use an american bank website.

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) #JavaScript

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

Yes! More of this sort of thing please, News Websites.
"He just likes being a giant cat. He doesn't frighten our dog."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmvvy2d9p4o

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Ah, yes, the 62 genders. Including “MALE” and “FRANCE.”
https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.gender.php

#UK people! I'm planning to take a taxi from Edinburgh airport (to Stirling, so bit longer distance); any companies to avoid and/or tips? I found some websites but they all look similar so I'm just looking for some advice!

Imagine if #Laravel, the company, actually shared news on their own website instead of X.
It would be like all the people everywhere could read it.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/11480878

I am noticing that many websites are no longer giving cookie choices, rather they merely say "we are spying on you" (they use nicer words, but that is the meaning) with only one option:
"I Understand".
To my mind that knocks out the last prop underneath website operators' argument that those of us with ad blockers (and more) are somehow on the wrong side of the ethical fence.

In increasing order of silliness...
https://no-js.club/
https://nocss.club/

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/clou

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Helpful showing all data websites / trackers can gather about you:
https://ipleak.net/
via my new browser experiment: LibreWolf (custom version of FireFox)
https://librewolf.net/

IP/DNS Detect
What is your IP, what is your DNS, check your torrent IP, what informations you send to websites.

I'm mad at websites that use code that make Firefox unusable. I'd prefer to use one browser, but at some sites I've found that links don't work as soon as one link have been clicked. All links are unclickable when I go back to an earlier side in the browser. Hi cromium, and thus, hi second set of plug-ins/extensions...

Fake CNN and BBC sites used to push investment scams https://therecord.media/news-websites-faked-to-spread-investment-scams

@… I'm a huge fan of Publii, and have used it for most of my websites: https://getpublii.com/
It has a local desktop app that you can use to edit your posts and …

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

"But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for."
https://www.jon…

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Spannende Effekte, die #LLM auf mein Leben haben: ich reaktiviere alte Geräte, ggf. zur Weitergabe an andere. Liegt soviel rum, was mangels Anleitungen oder wegen kleinen Macken nicht genutzt wird. Mit #KI macht Diagnose Zeug wieder zum laufen bringen viel mehr Spaß.
Original-Websites schon to…

After having wondered why my browsers all behave differently when navigating websites with a keyboard, I found this helpful article about the various settings the browsers have and the „spatial" navigation feature that f.e. #Vivaldi offers:

Links unreachable with tab key despite having href made me learn about Spatial Navigation
Another issue where I was not able to google a simple solution: I discovered that links on a website...

Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot.
🍿One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do.
This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test.
In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the ad…

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04865

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim through the reviews, perusing reviews remains challenging for blind users, who rely on screen reader assistive technology that supports predominantly one-dimensional narration of content via keyboard shortcuts. In an interview study, we uncovered numerous pain points of blind screen reader users with online restaurant…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Night before the #AustralianElection2025 :
Looking up all the small, weird & often racist parties to figure out your preferential voting list.
Laugh-crying at how bad their websites, photos/bios & policies are.
Shuddering, knowing you'll have to decide a number to put in their box.
Voting is compulsory.

Sheri Byrne-Haber points out that some disability-related orgs use overlays and as a result you should probably not trust those orgs:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_access…

Autism Speaks. | Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled)
Autism Speaks. United Spinal Association. Special Olympics. @Sins Invalid. What do they have in common? They are all organizations that claim to be allies of people who are neurodiverse or have disabilities. Every single one of them uses an overlay on their websites. Overlays are shortcuts that don’t resolve accessibility barriers created through sloppy coding practices. They create a false sense of compliance, often interfering with assistive technology and user experience. Overlay compan…

I remember using Opera Mini, even on an iPhone. Had a lousy data plan where they would throttle it massively at some point. Opera mini was the way I could continue surfing the web without all those megabytes of cruft (even back theb) https://mstdn.social/@osnews/114598061141994857

Best of all: everything is free, thanks to #openrouter 😍
I am so sick of all these none-free bullshit websites or chrome-plugins that don't work. Even the custom GPTs in #chatgpt are bullshit. The only YouTube summarizer that works is

It’s infuriating that every Substack email comes with a “read in app” link but it just takes you to the App Store, even if you have the app installed already. If you then tap “Open”, it just opens the app; it doesn’t take you to the specific post you were trying to read.
Yes, websites can’t tell which apps you have installed. Which is why Substack should link to the web version with a Smart App Banner. Not rocket science, but I guess that would make it too easy to avoid the app??

Striking Back At Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata To Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels
Cl\'ement Parssegny, Johan Mazel, Olivier Levillain, Pierre Chifflier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08922

Striking Back At Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata To Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels
Off-the-shelf software for Command and Control is often used by attackers and legitimate pentesters looking for discretion. Among other functionalities, these tools facilitate the customization of their network traffic so it can mimic popular websites, thereby increasing their secrecy. Cobalt Strike is one of the most famous solutions in this category, used by known advanced attacker groups such as "Mustang Panda" or "Nobelium". In response to these threats, Security Operation Centers and other…

Russia-linked group spoofing European journalists to spread disinformation https://therecord.media/russia-group-spoofing-journalists-disinfo

I wish RSS/Atom had opt-in CSS.
I appreciate that I can effectively download a website and read it whenever I want, but so many websites I read are quite pretty.
I’d love it if they showed up just as pretty in my feed reader, with the option to toggle it per feed.

Companies too. Like my gym. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114808787833782813

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

"The alleged sex ring operated from at least 2018 to 2019 and masqueraded as regional **teen beauty pageants**, modeling agencies, as well as dating websites"
Investigative Report Alleges Links Between Billionaire Deripaska and Prostitution Ring Involving Minors - The Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/19/investigative-report-alleges-links-between-billionaire-deripaska-and-prostitution-ring-involving-minors-a89503

Use cookies in shiny apps: #rstats #shiny

»Pay up or stop scraping – Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl:
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.
Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites.«
This is certainly a good idea, but on the other hand, the competition is trying to eliminate each other. I'm curious… 🍿😎

Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites (Seth Borenstein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p167#a250701p167

Smashing! 😻
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04951 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Unsafe LLM-Based Search: Quantitative Analysis and Mitigation of Safety Risks in AI Web Search
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the capabilities of AI-Powered Search Engines (AIPSEs), offering precise and efficient responses by integrating external databases with pre-existing knowledge. However, we observe that these AIPSEs raise risks such as quoting malicious content or citing malicious websites, leading to harmful or unverified information dissemination. In this study, we conduct the first safety risk quantification on seven production AI…

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Web.de wird oft nicht ernst genommen. Doch tatsächlich ist es in Deutschland eine der größten Nachrichten-Websites.
Die Redaktion kann diesem Anspruch jedoch offenbar nicht standhalten.
Seit mehreren Stunden steht dort dieser Artikel, in dem @… fälschlicherweise mehrfach als Grünenchefin bezeichnet wird. Und niemand korrigiert es.

Sources: OpenAI plans an AI-powered web browser with some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/op…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

China-linked hackers spoof big-name brand websites to steal shoppers' payment info https://therecord.media/china-linked-hackers-website-phishing

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Layered, Overlapping, and Inconsistent: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Multiple Privacy Policies and Controls of U.S. Banks
Lu Xian, Van Tran, Lauren Lee, Meera Kumar, Yichen Zhang, Florian Schaub
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05415

Layered, Overlapping, and Inconsistent: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Multiple Privacy Policies and Controls of U.S. Banks
Privacy policies are often complex. An exception is the two-page standardized notice that U.S. financial institutions must provide under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). However, banks now operate websites, mobile apps, and other services that involve complex data sharing practices that require additional privacy notices and do-not-sell opt-outs. We conducted a large-scale analysis of how U.S. banks implement privacy policies and controls in response to GLBA; other federal privacy policy requ…

»Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine:
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed on over 100,000 WordPress websites.«
This is not surprising, especially since WordPress is very popular. However, the fact that it affects this scope should generally draw our attention to it on the web.
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Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed.

Spiele seit ein paar Wochen intensiv mit LLMs rum und es ist schon faszinierend, was das so mit der Arbeitsweise/Alltag macht.
Es macht endlich wieder Spaß, Dinge zu recherchieren und Ideen auszuarbeiten. WWW per klassischer Suchmaschine macht schon länger keinen Spaß mehr...
Liegt nicht nur am generierten Schrott, sondern auch an Websites, die so vollgestopft sind, das sie nicht durch die mobile Leitung im Zug passen ;)
LLM filtert und komprimiert :)

Alright, so … websites.

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2…

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/