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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by 0bsolete on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:35PM (#25513465)
The site itself looks like a front. It's the bare minimum of a website, a template and images with non-transparent backgrounds. Compounding with contact information not working, this should ring alarm bells for most.
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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by Firerouge on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:23PM (#25513740)
For those who are curious what it looks like but don't want to visit it, here are shots from LambdaTest.

Desktop: https://i.imgur.com/moLNdTo.png

Mobile: https://i.imgur.com/ci5037w.png

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by samoa42 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:18AM (#25515294)
please consider not using imgur.

it does not return the image even if the url directly points to it and does not work correctly with a lot of browsers.

ty

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by Firerouge on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:19AM (#25515906)
Good to know, what's a better alternative that doesn't require a login?
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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by sundarurfriend on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:02AM (#25516415)
https://postimages.org/ is what I've taken to using, once Imgur became bloated and annoying to upload to.

(FWIW, the direct link to Imgur images above do work for me, as in loading only the images. I have JS disabled, but I don't think that makes a difference in this case.)

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by maest on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:02AM (#25516688)
The imgur link doesn't work for me and I'm running Firefox with JS disabled.

I just get a text saying:

If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work.

EDIT: I've disabled showing the referer in Firefox and the link works fine now. Imgur must be looking at the referer and redirecting when coming in from outside the website.

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by tleb_ on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:49AM (#25516064)
What could be the risk visiting the site?
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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by samb1729 on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:38AM (#25602278)
It's not about risk, it's about it being annoying. When I click a link where the hostname is i.imgur.com and the path ends with jpg/png/gif, I want my browser to load a single image resource and not an HTML page.
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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by banana_giraffe on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:15PM (#25514013)
And, somewhat randomly: A list of countries and what they claim to be the IPs in that country on a subdomain:

http://countries.openportstats.com/

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by thekevan on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:54PM (#25513902)
>It's the bare minimum of a website, a template and images with non-transparent backgrounds.

To be honest, if I were doing a pretty bare bones but legit web app that was of the more informative type and did not have to have much customer engagement, a template or an unoriginal design like that is likely something I would use.

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Re:What's the deal with openportstats.com? by schwartzworld on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:36PM (#25531666)
Not saying the site is legit, but there's nothing wrong with using a template with some simple custom images. People on HN are constantly complaining about overengineered websites.
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