Classic "this is why we can't have nice things" moment
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Tragedy of the Commons.
Can’t say I’m surprised that a file sharing site that advertises complete anonymity was being used to spread illegal and I’m guessing disgusting things.
I’m surprised that anyone thought it was a good idea though.
A file sharing site with anonymity is a good idea. The assholes who abuse it is why we can't have good things.
That’s why it’s not a good idea though, because complete anonymity is of course going to be a calling card for the worst of the worst illegal content.
When it says abuse etc it means like actually gross more illegal than pirated content correct. I believe so but am curious.
It's nice to have an ideal and wanting to contribute. Dealing with constant abuse and threat to your physical safety, mental health, financial and legal liability, etc., is not what everyone has in mind at start.
And this goes to Lemmy instance admins too. It's not supposed to be anonymous, but the federated nature makes spreading content with malicious intent very easy.
What a shame. Stupid fucking pedos.
That's sad A lot of stuff was hosted on it from the tor network
I am very proud to say that I wasn't even aware that abusive material filenames had a certain pattern. Thought never crossed my mind.
Curious if their proxy host was cloudflare or DDoS-Guard (Russian) or even a lesser known service.
they are smart
Cloudflare (American) is a cancer in this case, cause they have an auto-ban feature, which instantly checks hashes of files in a blacklist and warns domain admins with following ban of dashboard. And this not only goes to CSAM.
Yet most of the streaming sites use it.( yes i know streaming sites don't host stuff on their own). there are only a few which can afford a paid cdn.
God damn, this will definitely break a lot of DDL shares - I know that, for a couple of forums, Anonfiles was the host that the majority of uploaders used.
Ayyy i remember that place. That's where the OG netflix ripping tool from scene was. Doesn't work anymore sadly.
I really liked it I used it if I need to send some 100 mb files to friends god I will miss that site it was great
May I introduce you to one of the many wormhole client?
Their API was too easy to abuse, I wrote some scripts to batch upload to these hosts. Anonfiles is just one name, rapidsha.re was another one for example. You could dork for the API manual content and find more hosts that were actually anonfiles. Now all of these are gone, it was a nice host.
