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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by reconvene on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:10PM (#37917297)
I don't know why I checked but uhh yup. It's working. There are at least 6 sites on the first page of Google results that now render goatse. Thankfully, the first link is the original one for me.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by wooque on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917648)
Doesn't work in Firefox.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by abfaqb on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:04PM (#37918129)
It does. (NSFW evidently) hxxps://thepasswordgame.io/sqword
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by extraduder_ire on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:58PM (#37924395)
I think it doesn't appear at all if you have enhanced tracking protection turned on.

And the normal game shows up in the iframe if you have looked at the real game before, and have data in your localStorage. I assume to not arouse suspicion from people ripping off the game.

I disabled tracking protection, and deleted localstorage on the real site. Then it showed up.

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by smcl on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:21PM (#37917503)
Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D

[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by mcv on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917644)
I've managed to never see goatse so far. Not because I'm new or innocent, but because I've learned my lessons. I don't think the 10,000 really applies to this situation. It's certainly not something that everybody needs to see at some point in their lives (or so I've been lead to believe).
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by unixhero on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:41PM (#37917785)
I didn't want to see it

But it was kind of a rickroll situation... yeah it sucks

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by wincy on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:49PM (#37917912)
In college my friend came over for a LAN party and when he went to the bathroom I quietly set his background to Goatse… I got quite the chuckle at 3am when he went to shut down his computer after a long night of gaming. Ah to be young again.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by lostlogin on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:15PM (#37918276)
> after a long night of gaming.

Wasn’t it more like 3 hours to setup and get the network functioning, and hour of gaming?

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by sergers on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:56PM (#37918951)
That was part of the fun at lan parties.

Or goto a hosted one

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by hyperbovine on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:01PM (#37919970)
Anyone who was a freshmen in college circa y2k saw it about 4000 times. It was one of the first images to which I became desensitized.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by js2 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:15PM (#37920929)
Welp perhaps you'd enjoy an album of other people see goatse for the first time:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrneutron/albums/1568481/

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:56PM (#37921453)
That was great. Risky click of the day, but well worth it. I think my favorite was Ron Jeremy, of all people, being super dismayed by goatse.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:29PM (#37917626)
This is a different twist on that xkcd - if you haven't seen goatse before, consider yourself truly lucky, and enjoy not experiencing this particular cognitohazard.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:28PM (#37917606)
I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by feoren on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917651)
Cringeworthy? This is one of the more oft-linked XKCDs, I think because it makes a valid observation: everyone has a few things that "everyone knows" that they've randomly missed, and it's more fun to enjoy the discovery than to ridicule them for something that happens to all of us randomly.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:33PM (#37917675)
the observation is sound, it's the presentation that irks me
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by n40487171 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917639)
Did you read the xkcd? It's not about goatse
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:32PM (#37917661)
goatse isn't cringeworthy
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by HeckFeck on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:55PM (#37917979)
I mean, the subject's face probably did resemble a cringe.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by civilitty on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917654)
You’re not the only one. It’s an XKCD comic made for LinkedIn and it annoys me every time it’s referenced.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by floren on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:50PM (#37917916)
Same but every XKCD
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:49PM (#37918821)
I guess you're one of those people who thinks that any sincere emotional expression is cringe?

I've never understood that attitude.

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:03PM (#37919065)
you guessed wrongly
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:48PM (#37962749)
That's what you're doing, though.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:49PM (#37963114)
it's the "any" that makes it wrong. I reserve the right to pick and choose what expressions I find cringeworthy
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:08AM (#37973449)
So you only sometimes find things cringey just because they're sincere?

That's not a large improvement.

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by hoistbypetard on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:30PM (#37919452)
Your joke really flips the meaning of the lucky 10000. Nicely done.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by Vicinity9635 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:59PM (#37919943)
This is the "Lucky Pierre" type of lucky.

If you don't know what that is, you might not want to search it.

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by resolutebat on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:38PM (#37920479)
None of these seem particularly horrifying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Pierre

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by tremon on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:50PM (#37922619)
I'm guessing the poster is referring to the last item on that disambiguation page.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by thedaly on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:11PM (#37917323)
This just made my day
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by adolph on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:25PM (#37917553)
Time was, the 3oƐ was rickrolling before anyone was never given up.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by tsukikage on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:17PM (#37918301)
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by fundad on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:21PM (#37917505)
Yeah it checks out. Good thing I'm on slow internet.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by John23832 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:04PM (#37918132)
Curiosity kills the cat. Can confirm.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by piyh on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:33PM (#37920411)
I hadn't been goatsed in a very long time. Don't know why I intentionally broke that streak
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by hluska on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:48PM (#37922607)
That is so funny - I was just asking myself that same thing. Why did I just intentionally goatse myself? I knew what would be there and did it anyways…:)
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by andrelaszlo on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:09PM (#37918186)
At least 12 different domains from the top Kagi results. My poor eyes...
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by RGamma on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:25PM (#37922431)
It did improve my blocklist however
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by joshcsimmons on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:32PM (#37921162)
This made my day hahaha