/baw/ - General Discussion

4chan is shit now anyway.

>>428502
doing pretty good, sir.

Another shooter or someone leaking government documents?

>>428505
The captcha broke.

>>428502
I hope it never comes back, I wanna be FREEEE

>>428507
It's back, you're fucked.

>>428503
>now
Left in 2017 and didn't look back. The bad thing is that some of the refugees spreading out to the smaller imageboards are taking the bad baggage with them and get pissy when they find out most boards are bored with edgelords. And it's only some, but by sheer numbers of the main imageboards it adds up to a large force on a small board.

>>428502
I'm fine

>>430867
Let me guess, does the bug also say "4chan pass users are exempt from this"?

>>430867
Apparently it happened because people using incognito mode kept spamming /vg/ with scat and evading bans that way, so they had to add a detection.

I am now curious as to how many users actually post that way.

>>430869
How can anybody use incognito mode to ban evade? aren't bans ip based?

>>430874
IPs are piss easy to change. That's why bans are locked to IP + cookie. That way even if you change IPs, 4chan can still tell its you from the cookie. If you use Incognito mode and close it, you get your cookies flushed, so if you change IPs on top of that 4chan won't be able to identify you and you can evade bans.

I haven’t posted an image on 4chan in a single month since I don’t feel not using incognito mode, also I think they did another weird thing with the captcha recently. Place is getting more elitist by the day

and right now the captchas don't even work at all. The network call returns a 500 error. The workaround is to remove the framed parameter from the network call (which will make it return the required data), manually call it, and paste it into the javascript function that parses it.
ridiculous.

>>431033
>>431034
Hey it works again!

Its odd now you sometimes need to click a button to Prove You're Not A Robot but it only happens occasionaly, also sometimes the captcha is only 4 digits long which is more relaxing to type.

>>428503
It's been shit for awhile now even before recent times

>>431183
Sometimes it is Cloudflare's fault, they are changing code for no good reason, and some browsers break more than others. At least they are fixing their own mistakes.

>>428502
I wish some 1337 h4xx0r would kill that site.
>>428539
>Left in 2017 and didn't look back
Yea, I wish I had left at that time. That site is a waste of 0's and 1's.

>>428539
Did I made this post? I have the same thoughts in regards of 4chan, but I left in 2020 in my case. I knew it was shit back then but at least you couls find some decent eurocomic or obscure cartoon if you lurked long enough, but what really made me cut ties with it was the lack of moderation.
>>431530
I'm actually surprised how little proper attacks 4chan had and how little info from their mod team has been leaked. The site's software is ancient, it doesn't even support vp9, there's no way it isn't filled with exploitables to the brim.
And yes, I'm looking forward for 4chan to finally die, internet would become worse, but at least we'll get smaller communities with better moderation and more curated content eventually.

>>431531
>Did I made this post?
"all posts are reposts" is one of the rules of the internet.

>>431533
No, it happened to me too, and I have no idea why.

>>431533
>>431535
One minute I can post again, the next I can't. What's going on over there?

>>431556
yeah, same shit happened here, I could do around 6 posts and then blocked again.

do you also automatically clean cookies when browsing?

>>431557
Isn't it more likely that some spammer is buying up IPs to ban evade?

>>431558
We are talking about IPs that belong to a commercial ISP, you can't buy them up, not unless a lot of them are infected by malware and on sale on the darknet.

I think it's more likely that they have a system in place that checks how many new user sessions were started from certain IP ranges, too many and it means the users are cleaning cookies to get around bans/identifications, which is the "abuse".

>>431559
But then wouldn't you get blocked on other boards too?

>>431560
No, the checks are done separately by board. I couldn't post images on /v/ for years now, but had no issues anywhere else.

>>431561
Interesting info, thanks. Me, I'm not automatically clearing cookies when browsing and only have one or two user sessions per day, so I don't see that I'm blocked for either of those reasons.

>>431533
>>431556
I got the same message too, and I found it equally mysterious. I don't have a habit of posting controversial/ban-worthy stuff, plus I don't think I've even posted anything in a whole week before I got that error. The error doesn't specify any particular post as the problem.
Yesterday I got that message, but today I can post again for some reason.

I heard people on /g/ talking about how posting on /biz/ now requires an e-mail address because of constant cryptocoin shilling. The board currently has a sticky talking about it. I was wondering if that could be connected to whatever's going on. Maybe some people keep scamming, shilling and switching their IPs so much that their bans are affecting lots of other anons too?

Or maybe it's a cookie problem or something, as suggested ITT. I was struggling with the captcha immediately before I got that message. Maybe the site thought that requesting multiple captchas in a short timespan seemed suspicious.

>>431585
>Yesterday I got that message, but today I can post again for some reason.
Same. It's very strange.

>Maybe some people keep scamming, shilling and switching their IPs so much that their bans are affecting lots of other anons too?
I've wondered about this too. Some trolls and spammers constantly ban-evade so they can target specific threads. Then there's the guy who ban-evades just so he can flood the /co/ catalog every day.

Yeah. First time i was posting normally, then a few minutes into it, IP blocked. Meanwhile the catalog was full of Peridot spam.
This lasted some two days, then I could post maybe six times total, and got IP blocked again.
Yesterday I could post normally, this time I turned off the cookie block. There were no problems.
I'm putting back the cookie block now, let's see if that causes it or not.

What's up with the Peridot spam on /co/?

>>431589
I don't know, but it's fucking hilarious.

>>431590
Fuck off, its part of the cancer that is modern 4chan

>>431589
Supposedly the guy behind the spam is doing it because a janitor nuked one of his threads back in 2022.

>>431594
I read about that. Apparently the guy got into 4chan's mod team and took screenshots of the inner operations servers which; funnily enough, it was a Discord circlejerk of like 20 guys playing Dota all day.
I don't what I was expecting but it wasn't that.