Closed Sh4d closed 4 months ago
@rystaf This seems like a pretty serious issue, might want to look into this sooner rather than later
I removed the /link endpoint in the latest release 0.0.40. This was used to redirect users to the "old" interface when clicking on non-"old" lemmy links. I'll look into a better solution for this.
Awesome, thanks for the quick patch!
On old.lemmy.ca we're seeing a significant number of requests from Google Bot to random sites:
This appears to be some sort of SEO abuse that mlmym enables: https://www.fastfwd.com/302-redirect-hijacking/
From a quick scan, I'm not seeing many places that mlmym even uses this 302 redirect so for now I've blocked this in our upstream nginx: