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It's just a glorified web scraper, I didn't know it was this popular. You could build a barebones scraper and output in less than 10 lines with curl in PHP. And 12ftio used to inject its own code into the output, it's funny how people were Ozzy with that.
Everyone who ever does web scraping knew serving it on his own public domain was going to be a problem.
Boy, people are lazy.
Today I learned because I can't code, I'm useless and lazy.
The fucking people you come across on the internet...smh
Relevant XKCD.
Sure, because everybody who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone is a web dev. Obviously.
/s
Get out and touch grass mate.
Please paste the 10 lines here
… we’re still waiting
Yeah, that's literally the same as 12ft or any other anti paywall tool. I mean hey, it's just two lines, that's even 8 less than the original smoothbrain, absolutely easy to use for any end user. Thanks. /s
Do we put that code in the address bar of Firefox? Seriously asking here.
lmao what an absolutely moronic take.
That’s not even what 12ft.io was. It wasn’t scraping anything, it was just a redirect to the google web cache. Importantly, it was also accessible, something that anyone could use without installing anything.