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MSFN’s gone completely haywire and is now even posting multiple times. It’s been nothing but glitches for weeks.

It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True "Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you're seeing." By Frank Landymore Published Jul 28, 2026 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dead-internet-theory-come-true The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as people - all part of some nefarious scheme to control humankind by keeping us isolated and divided. That last part is far-fetched, but the core of the idea - that bots outnumber humans online - is inexorably starting to feel weirdly grounded. Fortune did a roundup of the latest data on the makeup of internet traffic, and most of it points to humans now being a quaint minority. "There’s a lot of missing pieces of information, but a lot of the observed data suggests the same thing, which is like there is more bot activity," Rudy Yang, a financial tech analyst at Pitchbook, told Fortune. "Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you’re seeing." This should come as no surprise. Bots have been everywhere on social media for a while now, and more and more people are wielding little posses of AI agents to do stuff on the internet on their behalf, ranging from conducting research to shopping. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman infamously said he was worried that the dead internet theory was coming true last year, seemingly without a shred of self-awareness. Further corroborating this new paradigm, Cloudflare announced in June that 57 percent of webpage requests were being made by bots, marking the first time that bots made up the majority by its own metrics. Bots have long been ubiquitous, but AI agents are doing the most to reshape the web. One report from the cybersecurity firm HUMAN found that traffic generated by AI agents surged by 7,851 percent year over year, Fortune noted. All those AI agents aren’t generating ad impressions, which is how a lot of websites keep the lights on, while putting a strain on those websites’ servers. "They consume the web completely differently than humans do," Yang told Fortune. "It’s almost like an entire new category, customer category, was created, and it means a lot for businesses because no one, as a business owner, is going to want to silo themselves from being able to serve a completely new customer segment." They’re also changing what we see on the web, too. A report published in October from the SEO firm Graphite found that over half of all new English-language articles on the internet were written with AI. It hasn’t helped that Google, the internet’s de facto steward, has made a hard pivot towards making the internet less navigable by humans. Now, the focus is on having a chatbot to dredge up answers, instead of providing a list of links to websites they’d find in its search engine.

https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7-REWORK/issues/65

So you can go to these two sites with out CF interfearence? No, very strange websites. However, all my tested websites have worked properly. Check your turnstile compatibility: https://browser-compat.turnstile.workers.dev/ This test was advised on this website: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-challenges/troubleshooting/challenge-solve-issues/ BTW, your posted websites perform a different test, not the standard one.

In the meanwhile, test this link: https://www.sb-innovation.de/forum.php This one, for example, works fine for me.

At the moment. I am on Android. I will go now to my Windows XP machine to check your links. Give me some minutes!

Which version exactly of Mypal 78 are you using?

You said you disabled uBO. Really completely in the Add-ons Manager?

Another option is to create a new and therefore untouched profile for testing. And perform a reconnect to get a fresh IP.

Works perfectly on my system, and is the new solution, which has been confirmed to work.

SSUAOs are always strings. Delete cache, all related cookies and website settings. Disable temporarily uBO if you're using it. And purge also the startup cache. Finally, close Mypal completely and start it again.

Of course, you’re welcome to mention Cauldron Filthcare. This service keeps everyone away from MSFN, doesn't matter whether a malicious bot, a member or a guest. That’s the ultimate in security for a website. Here is a nice example: Cloudflare challenge loops and their solution Not available anymore! P.S.: First of all, it would rather be advisable to completely delete all bot accounts on MSFN. And there are thousands of them. They are easy to find. Then, at some point, and as a positive side effect, the MSFN statistics would once again reflect reality more accurately. This was about the bot accounts weeks ago: https://msfn.org/board/topic/187801-msfn-and-its-lack-of-search-results-in-google-bing-and-all-search-engines-depending-on-them/page/8/#findComment-1287893 But who cares anyway ...

@Dave-H ; Would it be too much to ask if I kindly requested that ALL these recent OT posts about image-pasting+posting in the MSFN forum editor be moved to a topic of its own under: https://msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-amp-forum-issues/ ? This, practically dead, thread is not apt for such an issue, it'd be more visible in a "proper place", should other MSFN members with uBO configuration similar to NHTPG's experience the same predicament... Thanks!

That paste was a test. So I can confirm it works if I *bypass* uBO (which I've never had to do before). So okay, yeah, I should have checked that first, I didn't isolate which list/rule is the culprit. But it is something with uBO preventing the pasted image from posting. No clue, at least I know I can do things the "easy way" (NO FILE HOSTING) and just copy/paste as long as uBO is temporarily bypassed.

Thanks @Tangy! Good to know that Panda seems to be OK for you as well now. Whether it will keep working on XP long-term remains to be seen, of course, but if you have a paid version, it seems to be about the only option for XP which includes real-time scanning, albeit online rather than local, plus a firewall and protection against dodgy websites. Let's hope it keeps going!

47KB image file Selected/Attached+Inserted: Image copied/pasted/auto-inserted as 237KB attachment: And manually inserted: End of post.

@NotHereToPlayGames That balloon picture was copied and pasted into the editor and seems to have posted fine. What actually happens when you try it? Does it not post at all, or does it post but without the image?

@Dave-HYes , I do confirm your findings. Panda is fully functional ! PS : Let us monitor the situation for a few days to make sure that this is the case.

OK, I have now tried it on my netbook, using Supermium 144. I'm sure my desktop at home will be the same. It seems to work for me. I opened my image viewer (xnview classic), opened an image, right clicked and selected 'copy'. I then opened this reply, right-clicked, and selected 'paste'. The image appeared as an attachment and was inserted into the post. The keyboard shortcuts also worked. So, I don't know why it's not working for you I'm afraid. This is off-topic here of course, perhaps if you can't resolve it you could report it in the site issues section.

And here is a temporary polyfill for GitHub's editor issue The GitHub editor does not work in Mypal 78.0.3: // ==UserScript== // @name GitHub Editor Fix // @namespace https://msfn.org/board/profile/311648-astroskipper/ // @version 1.0 // @description Polyfills Array.prototype.toSorted for GitHub editor compatibility created by dainiusb from GitHub // @author AstroSkipper / Gemini // @match https://github.com/* // @match https://*.github.com/* // @run-at document-start // @icon https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.png // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { // Polyfill Array.prototype.toSorted if missing if (!Array.prototype.toSorted) { Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'toSorted', { value: function(compareFn) { return this.slice().sort(compareFn); }, writable: true, configurable: true, enumerable: false }); } })();

Technically, *ALL* Chrome/Chromium browsers can be made PORTABLE. Just use a "loader" or "Chrome++". And *never* (my opinion!) use any "installer". None needed. Just use 7Zip (or similar) to extract the contents of mini_installer.exe for 32bit or min_installer_x64.exe for 64bit. Same goes for the ungoogled versions, just extract using 7Zip (or similar). Chrome++ is found here: https://github.com/Bush2021/chrome_plus/releases (I use v1.11.1 because of preference on older method for [RunAfter] not popping up a visible command prompt). Most importanly, *ALL* versions of Chrome/Chromium and *ALL* of their forks **ARE** portable - you just have to extract them and use with your preferred "loader method".

StartAllBack 3.9.24

read this part again I wanted to point out that whenever company plays your friend or good guy they do not have your best interest in mind rather theirs. You should never ever worship brand into point where you blindly believe all they say and cannot question it at all. You are walking wallet for company so use that for your advantage. They want your money, but you do not have to give it to them if you think they do not deserve it. Back in the day there used to be this vote with your wallet way that is mocked these days as stupid by consumertards. I still do that. I do not buy goods that ethics I cant agree with UNLESS they are required for living. You need house, food, running water, electricity and if live in middle of nowhere and happen to be crippled need automobile of some sort and petrol or diesel, but you DO NOT NEED buy latest AAA titles or new smartphone yearly if disagree with company ethics. You need to find golden mean between bending over and lubing up all the way and living in the forest.