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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    Call it what you want, no skin off my back. To me, that sounded like a violation of forum rules! But I am MAN ENOUGH to "let it slide". Bottom line, TO ME, is that I view all of this as a "the buck stops here" and I point to the FORUM OWNER as where that "buck stops". I really do, as superficial and depthless as it may sound, BLAME THE FORUM OWNER and not Google or Microsoft or Bing or even AstroSkipper. The buck stops at THE FORUM OWNER, nothing more, nothing less, to this "superficial and shallow" BYSTANDER. And yeah, again, I'll let that one slide, but it really is walking RIGHT UP to the "line in the sand" of VIOLATING forum rules. In the end, it's not gonna matter, we may be at the very initial stages of MSFN *ceasing to exist*. But what do I know, I'm just superficial and shallow. Pfft.
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    Perhaps. NOT knowing the details of how all this works and unfolded, all I can see is that it TOOK TWO TO TANGO. ONE person did the hacking/spamming/shenanigans. And ONE website owner that was unable to prevent it. So let's just start picking them all off one by one. The hacker WON. The website owner LOST. So let's tell tell the hacker what forum to take down next.
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    Those "spam redirects" were brought to our attention in FEBRUARY. If you ask me, we should consider ourselves "lucky" that all of those search engines didn't remove MSFN results WAY BACK IN FEBRUARY. We can blame Google and Microsoft all we want (that is an "easy" blame-game that we have all played over the years). But if you ask me, the "first domino" was LACK OF SECURITY PROTECTIONS, the second domino was those "spam redirects", the third domino was the OWNER of MSFN "unable" to patch the security hole that ENABLED those "spam redirects", the last and final domino is the search engines left with no other choice than having to remove *ALL* search results because the MAJORITY of the results were now SPAM REDIRECTS and not REAL "url results". We can blame any single one of those dominoes. But the "first" seems more important "blame" than the "last", in my opinion.
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    There is the other way to look at it, and it is just as valid. The OWNER of MSFN has not (or can not!) "fix" the 'hack redirects' being discussed in that thread I directed you to, that those have been getting WORSE and WORSE since they were first brought to our attention, that the OWNER of MSFN has just ACCEPTED that as "it is what it is", and all of those search engines removed MSFN from their results AS A RESULT of the OWNER of MSFN not being able to "fix" those 'hack redirects'. CAUSE AND EFFECT.
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    Also, YouTube's "certificate" algorithm is ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). Windows XP (and IE8) does ***NOT*** support ECC natively. ECC is Vista and higher. So unless you are doing something to address that LACK OF SUPPORT in XP, then YouTube is not going to work.
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    Your two YouTube screencaps are *NOT* both visiting the SAME website. One is visiting http youtube, the other is visitng httpS youtube. In this day and age, NOBODY should EVER be visiting ANY website *without* that S. Sure, somebody is going to come along with an EXCEPTION to that RULE, but generally speaking NEVER VISIT http, ALWAYS visit httpS.
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    I agree. I do not use Google on a regular basis. I don't, and never have. All I know is that a member was discussing his Google results and so I did a search for "MSFN Start Is Back" and the results **DID** find MSFN. I am not advocating for Google here, I do not use Google, all I can do is report the facts as they unfold. And what is unfolding TODAY is *NOT* identical to what unfolded a week ago. We *ARE* further down that drain today then we were yesterday. *Fact!* I feel like you are twisting my words, I AM ON YOUR SIDE in this discussion.
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    I agree TODAY. But this is actually NEW news. A week ago when I posted that, you **COULD** do a Google search for "MSFN Windows XP" and you **DID** get MSFN results. That is no longer true. As you have noted in another thread. But again, this is NEW news that was not true a week ago. A week ago, I did a search for "MSFN Start Is Back" and the Google results listed MSFN as the #1 result for that query. That is not true "today".
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    That said, I don't fully support that type of "nanny state". Pros and cons on both sides, in my opinion.
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    Actually, in the case of Google excluding MSFN "results", there is a case to be made that they are doing so FOR YOUR PROTECTION. The DNS "chain" (I don't know the technical terms) has been EXPLOITED and HACKED by "bad people". Since that has never been "fixed", then Google and *all forms of AI out there* see accessing MSFN as a SECURITY RISK. That there "is" evidence of a MAN IN THE MIDDLE "ATTACK". So there is a case to be made that "security conscientious" search engines *SHOULD* be EXCLUDING results.
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    ie, this thread/discussion == https://msfn.org/board/topic/187750-sometimes-redirecting-to-spamgamble-site-when-accessing-msfnorgboard/#comments
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    You are being hit with witnessing the "spam redirect" discussed (but now seemingly dead) thread. I don't have that link offhand, there is a thread here at MSFN that discusses this very thing.
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    Okay, my page 1 and page 2 of those results all point to OTHER forums, none here at MSFN. Also none of the types of results indicated in the "gambling redirect" thread. And page 3 =
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    Seems like a legit search result for me. (edit: I myself never search via Google and prefer the "noai" version of DuckDuckGo and ocassionally use Bing when I "want" an AI Answer) (though mainly because Google for an AI always hits me with a Cloudflare capcha, but here lately so does Bing)
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    So ek3-random is YOU ??? If so, EXTREMELY nice to now have a REAL NAME to go with that project. Keep up the great work! Can we please have a DEDICATED THREAD here at MSFN for that project? With a LINK so that we don't all have to try to remember that random string of characters?
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    Chrome does have an ESR / Enterprise edition. At least they used to, we used it at work. But for some reason, either IT abandoned it or Google abandoned it, I cannot speak towards that. I do know that we used to only have a "you must close your browser to complete the update" every TWO MONTHS or so and now we get it every 3 or 4 d@mn weeks. WAY too often when you were used to that TWO MONTHS or so.
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    It's MY WAY of referencing a name that NOBODY CAN REMEMBER without scrolling through several pages to find the last reference and COPYING IT. Seriously, who can REMEMBER a RANDOM STRING OF CHARACTERS like "e3kskoy7wqk" ??? To me, it looks like somebody DIED while sitting at a keyboard, fell nose first into that keyboard, and his nose, ears, chin, and tongue spelled out his "dying word". Is that a WORD in ANY language on this planet ??? So yeah, instead of hunting hunting hunting for it, copying and pasting, I will forever henceforth refer to it as e3k-blah, ek3-blah, et cetera. "To each their own."
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    Scratch that. I *can* reproduce. I have to keep it open for longer than a few seconds before closing. I was launching and exiting, launching and exiting, launching and exiting - no event log. But if I *wait* a minute or so, then exit, yeah, event log EVERY TIME.
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    I'm going to give up also. But for the exact OPPOSITE reason. I'm not able to get the event log flooding - which is a "good thing", but why am I *not* getting it when the OP "can't not" (double negative) get the event log flooding ???
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    Eureka! That was it! But I'm still *not* able to get the event log issue. Not on XP x64. And not on XP x86.
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