Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing

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• Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i know that site from when i was still a teen and even the it was 99% fake creds. finding just one single working login for in a week was like finding a treasure for me.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guessing you’re younger than me because when I was a teen, this site was AMAZING!

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    • Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i’m almost 30 and was using (or trying to use…) the site when i was around 14-16 years old. dunno when the site first released thought. i stopped bothering after trying countless hours for weeks to use the site… but people just spammed fake accounts.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like the security community working together to minimize the effectiveness of a hacking community.

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  • blackfire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking that. Flood the market with fakes to deter the average skript kiddie

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    • taanegl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The logic is a little problematic, because it also means you mislead ordinary users, and honestly the infosec industry has a conflict of interest as well.

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  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see more spambots trying to monetize on desperate people. People try the link in the password field, that goes in a rabbit hole of concatenated ad.fly link “shorteners” that only show endless ads

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it just needs Captcha when adding a new entry.

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  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And a rate limit

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This site was great for like a year. Then it got spammed to shit like every other coupon/deal site with expired or fake deals, or just garbage. It wasn’t even worth trying to find a single working code or account. I’d forgotten this site even existed I haven’t used it in such a long time.

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• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fuck scribd, just upload yer shit to researchgate like a normal person

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• WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This website worked for me once, a bang bus credential.

  Never found anything else it worked for, and the bang bus credential lasted for maybe 6 days.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you need a specific file? Send me the scribd link.

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• Shurf116@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree, fuck scribd. I usually google “scribd free online downloader”, there’s a site (or maybe several sites, idc, I just use the first one) which allows you to somehow avoid the stupid paywall and registration

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• KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.

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  • brian@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform

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    • InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People when they learn a new word

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  • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot

    scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it’s designed for business.

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