Fuck the Washington Post and their demand that malware infect your computer.

[theweaselking]

Washington Post demands that they be allowed to infect your computer with malware if you want to read The Washington Post's public website.

Comments

[dantheserene.livejournal.com]

What are they doing?

[ashbet]

I can't see anything. Is there an article or post about this?

-- A <3

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you allow websites to install arbitrary malware on your computer, you see the Washington Post. If you do NOT allow websites to install arbitrary malware, you see a "the washington post was unable to install malware on your computer. Fuck you." message.

[ashbet]

I'm looking at the mobile site.

I worked in DC for 11 years, and the Post was my go-to paper, so I may have already accepted whatever-it-is.

Can you expand on what the malware is/does? :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It was a "you're blocking ads! Click here to install an ad program!" message.

[ashbet]

Ah, gotcha.

How strange -- I use AdBlock and haven't run into this behavior, but if . . . *aha*, now that I'm back at my computer, it's showing up.

This appears to be new since the last time I looked at the front page. It only appears on the desktop version.

I generally read the Post from e-mail subscriptions to various sections -- if you follow this link, it gives you a pop-up about the adblocker, but if you click the "X", it closes the pop-up and allows you to read the story.

With that said, fuck 'em for doing it!

-- A <3

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

I got a "The Washington Post was not able to sign you up for our spam mailing list, fuck you" instead, what does that mean?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

PS: If you didn't see the "FUCK YOU" message, your computer is infected with malware.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you allow websites to install arbitrary malware on your computer, you see the Washington Post. If you do NOT allow websites to install arbitrary malware, you see a "the washington post was unable to install malware on your computer. Fuck you." message.

[dantheserene.livejournal.com]

Could you perhaps expand on that?

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

This might be OS or geography dependent, as I don't allow anyone to install anything and don't see it.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

I get a pop-up telling me to disable my ad-blocker (um, no) in order to read the page, but I tell it to go away and it then displays the page. Or *a* page, anyway.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

How did you tell it to go away? I got no option other than to provide an email address and agree to terms and conditions.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

It was just a box with an X in the corner and a link to a sign-up page. Ticked the X and it went away. I'm using AdBlock and Ghostery.

[andrewducker]

I have Ghostery and uBlock installed, and I don't see the pop-up, I just get the page.

[cyprinella]

I can't say I've ever seen that, but I also have adblock with javascript turned off. That seems to head off a lot of that kind of shit.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

My experience, too. have AdBlock installed, seeing the page, not seeing any ads, didn't install anything.