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Don't date robots?

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First post, by UCyborg

Posted on 2026-04-28, 22:14

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I don't know what the heck I did, I'm messing around with FireDragon, a fork Floorp, which is a fork of Firefox. At some point, I open the new tab page and among the suggested pages is "Don't date robots!". I don't remember opening any site with that title, but then I look at the history and see that entry pointing to mown/index.php.

Amusing on its own, but, how did it end up there?? First time I hear of this path on this site.

If I go to that URL with Pale Moon, it stays there (I end up on main page in other browsers) and the page's body reads: "You need to accept cookies!"

I don't block cookies.

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Reply 1 of 10, by tomcattech

Posted on Yesterday, 01:06

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I'd take it as good advice in today's world...

sex-robot.jpg?quality=65&strip=all

I either fix it or break it permanently... there is no try.

Reply 2 of 10, by Snover

Posted on Yesterday, 04:55

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Constant Mown is working to save you from a botnet of AI crawlers. And by you, I mean VOGONS.

If I go to that URL with Pale Moon, it stays there (I end up on main page in other browsers) and the page's body reads: "You need to accept cookies!" I don't block cookies.

But you didn’t accept the cookies, did you‽ You copied and pasted that URL with your little human (probably, who can say) fingers, not stopping once to consider the potential consequences of your actions! That message is not intended for you, good sir. It is for the Billy Everyteens of the world who don’t accept cookies. But they are not deliberately sticking their fingers into the receptacle that stops them getting stuck in an infinite refresh loop. Did you get stuck in an infinite refresh loop? No‽ Now you know why! You’re welcome!

Don’t date robots!

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 3 of 10, by Errius

Posted on Yesterday, 12:18

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Reply 4 of 10, by Norton Commander

Posted on Yesterday, 16:00

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I got the same "You need to accept cookies" message yesterday. This is probably because I keep cookies disabled by default unless I need to login to a site (what cookies were initially intended for) but now it's just a way for corporations to track which sites you visited so they can serve you targeted ads.

None of your ******** business what sites I vist and I block all ads rendering your scraping worthless. Sometimes I get a site that just gives you a blank page unless you enable cookies. Fine. Plant your cookies. All browsing data including cookies get purged the second I leave your site. It's my corporate policy.

Reply 5 of 10, by Big Pink

Posted on Yesterday, 17:39

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Yeah, I saw this the other day when I opened my Active Topics bookmark. I think I had some string in the URL and something on the forum had changed which caused me to see the message.

I just want to take this moment to reiterate how much I despise 'AI'.

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Reply 6 of 10, by Errius

Posted on Yesterday, 18:23

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Do these robots look like Sean Young circa 1982? Asking for a friend.

Reply 7 of 10, by wierd_w

Posted on Yesterday, 18:30

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No, your choices are Lucy Lieubot and Marylin Monrobot.

Reply 8 of 10, by UCyborg

Posted on Today, 14:00

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I saw mown part briefly in URL bar today when navigating directly to https://www.vogons.org/.

Humans having to prove we're not bots. Where have we come?

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Reply 9 of 10, by bakemono

Posted on Today, 15:23

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UCyborg wrote on Today, 14:00:

Humans having to prove we're not bots. Where have we come?

This dumb little script kiddie arms race is ruining the whole web. Pretty soon the only sites I'll be allowed to load will be rt.com and my own site, and there will be no point in paying an ISP every month.

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Reply 10 of 10, by Grzyb

Posted on 5 minutes ago

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bakemono wrote on Today, 15:23:

Pretty soon the only sites I'll be allowed to load will be rt.com and my own site

It can get even worse - in my country, rt.com is blocked... kind of 🤣
Actually, it's local ISPs' DNS servers returning NXDOMAIN for that domain, changing them for eg. 8.8.8.8 solves the problem.

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