• 14th_cylon
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    1 year ago

    what the fuck? that page automatically, without asking, downloads and opens three pdf documents in external reader? how does that even work?


    so i had auto open pdf set in firefox, but still wtf. it is first time i saw a web to auto push the file like that without clicking on anything. that is some serious bullshit.

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      1 year ago

      Really? I opened the site in mobile before sharing so I didn’t see anything like that. Wonder if the site is compromised or something. Very odd user behavior

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        1 year ago

        Wonder if the site is compromised or something.

        that’s not it, they were documents relating to that text, the same that were also embedded inside of the article - see https://i.imgur.com/OABLReO.png

        but i have never seen such behaviour where webpage would trigger the file download on its own without clicking on anything.

        now combined with the fact that i had the browser set to automatically open pdf without asking and the fact the pdf can definitely contain malicious code, needless to say i was surprised.

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      1 year ago

      One thing nice about Lemmy is we can edit our post. I went ahead and changed the link to another site just to be on the safe side.