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Quoted: This is an outrage!!  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1715/6196E3CF-3D4B-4402-8011-EF6E9D45AA3C-1101315.jpg Haha, now you’re a pleb just like the rest of us. 
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Quoted: It will save the site a fortune in bandwidth though  Bandwidth? This site forum code wastes a ton of bandwidth when it puts post title in the URL. Amazon uses this same "feature". The URL's below are the exact same thread. So by adding in the thread title into the URL (which can be any chars btw) you waste bandwidth server/hosting side, and, the useless text in the URL also chews up your data plan at home (almost all cell phones have bit plan, some home ISP's still offer unlimited). You get the point. Same thread for all three URL's, but one URL much smaller than the others. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/So-uh-what-s-a-good-cartridge-for-hunting-say-and-Elk-/5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/./5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/GoatBoy-luvs-ARFCOM-and-will-never-ever-give-it-up-even-when-the-commis-come-knocking/5-2414729/ Side note - ever wonder why your cell phone data plan gets used up so fast? Well, what if 50% of every page you look at is javascript code on the page, of which you never see, it's just there to do whatever. Or what if 80% of the page you are looking at (bit count wise) is just random useless text inside a HTML remark tag. Hence, those sites in cahoots with ISP's can inflate your data usage w/o you even thinking about it, or in other words, make your wallet lighter and theirs fatter. |
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Quoted: Every pone put Country : ???? China ????  Why even have country label? The backend has it via registration process, but no need to advertise it in the gui. Or, make ever user country AUS, this will make AUS govt panic, seeing all these Aussi users who show their evil AR's.
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Quoted: Bandwidth? This site forum code wastes a ton of bandwidth when it puts post title in the URL. Amazon uses this same "feature". The URL's below are the exact same thread. So by adding in the thread title into the URL (which can be any chars btw) you waste bandwidth server/hosting side, and, the useless text in the URL also chews up your data plan at home (almost all cell phones have bit plan, some home ISP's still offer unlimited). You get the point. Same thread for all three URL's, but one URL much smaller than the others. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/So-uh-what-s-a-good-cartridge-for-hunting-say-and-Elk-/5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/./5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/GoatBoy-luvs-ARFCOM-and-will-never-ever-give-it-up-even-when-the-commis-come-knocking/5-2414729/ Side note - ever wonder why your cell phone data plan gets used up so fast? Well, what if 50% of every page you look at is javascript code on the page, of which you never see, it's just there to do whatever. Or what if 80% of the page you are looking at (bit count wise) is just random useless text inside a HTML remark tag. Hence, those sites in cahoots with ISP's can inflate your data usage w/o you even thinking about it, or in other words, make your wallet lighter and theirs fatter. Quoted: Quoted: It will save the site a fortune in bandwidth though Bandwidth? This site forum code wastes a ton of bandwidth when it puts post title in the URL. Amazon uses this same "feature". The URL's below are the exact same thread. So by adding in the thread title into the URL (which can be any chars btw) you waste bandwidth server/hosting side, and, the useless text in the URL also chews up your data plan at home (almost all cell phones have bit plan, some home ISP's still offer unlimited). You get the point. Same thread for all three URL's, but one URL much smaller than the others. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/So-uh-what-s-a-good-cartridge-for-hunting-say-and-Elk-/5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/./5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/GoatBoy-luvs-ARFCOM-and-will-never-ever-give-it-up-even-when-the-commis-come-knocking/5-2414729/ Side note - ever wonder why your cell phone data plan gets used up so fast? Well, what if 50% of every page you look at is javascript code on the page, of which you never see, it's just there to do whatever. Or what if 80% of the page you are looking at (bit count wise) is just random useless text inside a HTML remark tag. Hence, those sites in cahoots with ISP's can inflate your data usage w/o you even thinking about it, or in other words, make your wallet lighter and theirs fatter. I feel like you took my joke a little to serious
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Quoted: I feel like you took my joke a little to serious Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It will save the site a fortune in bandwidth though Bandwidth? This site forum code wastes a ton of bandwidth when it puts post title in the URL. Amazon uses this same "feature". The URL's below are the exact same thread. So by adding in the thread title into the URL (which can be any chars btw) you waste bandwidth server/hosting side, and, the useless text in the URL also chews up your data plan at home (almost all cell phones have bit plan, some home ISP's still offer unlimited). You get the point. Same thread for all three URL's, but one URL much smaller than the others. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/So-uh-what-s-a-good-cartridge-for-hunting-say-and-Elk-/5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/./5-2414729/ https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/GoatBoy-luvs-ARFCOM-and-will-never-ever-give-it-up-even-when-the-commis-come-knocking/5-2414729/ Side note - ever wonder why your cell phone data plan gets used up so fast? Well, what if 50% of every page you look at is javascript code on the page, of which you never see, it's just there to do whatever. Or what if 80% of the page you are looking at (bit count wise) is just random useless text inside a HTML remark tag. Hence, those sites in cahoots with ISP's can inflate your data usage w/o you even thinking about it, or in other words, make your wallet lighter and theirs fatter. I feel like you took my joke a little to serious And for the record, they really don't use any extra bandwidth. The site uses a single sprite sheet for many icons, and uses your client-side horsepower to display the appropriate icon in the appropriate location by selecting one of the icons from that sheet.  You need that sprite sheet even if there weren't any badges for other UI iconography...and you download the sheet once and cache it client side. Now fight me! 
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Quoted: And for the record, they really don't use any extra bandwidth. The site uses a single sprite sheet for many icons, and uses your client-side horsepower to display the appropriate icon in the appropriate location by selecting one of the icons from that sheet. https://www.ar15.com/images/2016/sprites-flat.png You need that sprite sheet even if there weren't any badges for other UI iconography...and you download the sheet once and cache it client side. Now fight me!  |
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Quoted: Muh Bling! Is it fair to assume AWS has copies of the board in their archives? I'd expect they are applying AI technology to cross reference to other online presence No, they wouldn't. They provide IaaS and PaaS but it's on you to provide your own backup if you're looking for more than their HA redundancy. That said, most of the board, including the archives, has been wide open to the internet for quite some time and I'm sure it's been scraped by other parties. You can't unring that bell. |
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Quoted: Listen folks. We are all part of this community and have done nothing illegal to worry about. The doxxing threat is always there no matter what. Just be careful what you say and where. This does not only apply to the forums, but to life. The actions we are taking are simply to make it a little tougher for folks who want to engage in illegal activities like doxxing and targeting others. I have never hid my information and don't plan to start now. I am a patriot of this great nation and I am a gun owner. I believe in the Constitution and freedom of speech. I have been discriminated against for being Hispanic and sadly, I fully expect to be discriminated against for being a conservative. (Constitutionalist to be more exact.) Quoted: Quoted: while we're getting off topic a bit (my bad) The feds know you're here local cops can find out you're here there's nothing much you're going to do to stop that what you can stop are the "activists" who think they're doing good deeds for their overlords. I see all sides of the threat, some of them you're not defeating by removing group icons or using bitcoin (still won't btw) - cut off the levels you can for now. The point isn't 100% or nothing - it's doing the best we can with what we have Listen folks. We are all part of this community and have done nothing illegal to worry about. The doxxing threat is always there no matter what. Just be careful what you say and where. This does not only apply to the forums, but to life. The actions we are taking are simply to make it a little tougher for folks who want to engage in illegal activities like doxxing and targeting others. I have never hid my information and don't plan to start now. I am a patriot of this great nation and I am a gun owner. I believe in the Constitution and freedom of speech. I have been discriminated against for being Hispanic and sadly, I fully expect to be discriminated against for being a conservative. (Constitutionalist to be more exact.) This. When they first announced the decision, Godaddy stated there was illegal activity. Tonight Ben Shapiro announced that they stated the site violated their TOS, and naturally gave no recourse, no appeals route. If there's so much illegal activity going on here, they should report it to the proper authorities. While they're at it, they should do the same for every site they register. If they're gonna go hall monitor, go all the way. |
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Quoted: Muh Bling! Is it fair to assume AWS has copies of the board in their archives? I'd expect they are applying AI technology to cross reference to other online presence Were the archives ever public? If so then places like wayback and others (gool, etc) have already crawled it and have them stored. |
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Quoted: This. When they first announced the decision, Godaddy stated there was illegal activity. Tonight Ben Shapiro announced that they stated the site violated their TOS, and naturally gave no recourse, no appeals route. If there's so much illegal activity going on here, they should report it to the proper authorities. While they're at it, they should do the same for every site they register. If they're gonna go hall monitor, go all the way. The Eff Bee Eye is all over the violators, so don't worry. They'll find or make-up something to nab people. It's also in USC that the FBI cannot act solely on 1A only. That's the law. So it baffles me as to how the bee eye can start tracking and following people because they said something somewhere. |
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Quoted: And for the record, they really don't use any extra bandwidth. The site uses a single sprite sheet for many icons, and uses your client-side horsepower to display the appropriate icon in the appropriate location by selecting one of the icons from that sheet. https://www.ar15.com/images/2016/sprites-flat.png You need that sprite sheet even if there weren't any badges for other UI iconography...and you download the sheet once and cache it client side. Now fight me! mindblown.gif (I guess they deleted that one from the meme library) |
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Quoted: Once vetted, all that is nuked. Yes. I tried explaining (but did a poor job of it) that even with those emails being deleted, there was still a distinct audit trail (group icons you are now obscuring). I did not have the energy then, to point out to your staff member, outraged at my accusation on what exactly I meant. I qualify for 4 or 5 of those icons. Never saw any need to BROADCAST my location and affiliations along with my stated positions and mindset to ANYONE who could type in ar15.com + my user name" in a browser. |
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Quoted: @Aspida You can do that on your own in profile settings. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I went ahead and disabled all the group icons to further protect folks. At this time it seems a silly risk to have anything that can further identify you. Feel free to discuss, complain, etc. Nothing has been wiped, they simply are not displaying. @goatboy good thought, would disabling location be of any value? Just show USA? or Liberia or somewhere? @Aspida You can do that on your own in profile settings. How? Nothing I tried worked. You can’t uncheck the state |
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Quoted: Why even have country label? The backend has it via registration process, but no need to advertise it in the gui. Or, make ever user country AUS, this will make AUS govt panic, seeing all these Aussi users who show their evil AR's. NO! Those knob-jockeys will just block ARFCOM at the ISP again, like they did after Christchurch. |
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Quoted: We are looking to modify archives when they return to no longer display user information with them. This way the content is saved without attributing individual posts to people. I think this should fit your concern! |
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So hold on, we are censoring our achievements and pride to hide ourselves from the left? Fuck that, I want my Marine Corps icon back. The planet can kiss my ass and let it be known all the way to the gates of Heaven I am a SGT. of Marines. Of all places to stand I thought this was the place. Bring everyone’s icons back is my vote. What is this, Twitter lite? |
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Quoted: So hold on, we are censoring our achievements and pride to hide ourselves from the left? Fuck that, I want my Marine Corps icon back. The planet can kiss my ass and let it be known all the way to the gates of Heaven I am a SGT. of Marines. Of all places to stand I thought this was the place. Bring everyone’s icons back is my vote. What is this, Twitter lite? |
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Quoted: This. This right here. I like this. Please move forward with this. This is great. Hurry up with this. Thank you in advance for this. Should be ready tomorrow for Team members. (Check the thread in Team.) Once folks are ok with how it turned out, we can open it up to everyone. |