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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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1743 points caspii | 2 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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commandlinefan ◴[07 Jun 21 21:53 UTC] No.27427573[source]▶
I suspect this will only get worse over time. There was a time when, if you wanted to put a site online, you (or somebody that represented you) made a point of understanding everything that went into it. But, even as what's considered a professional web site has gotten exponentially more complicated, too many people see setting up an online presence as something like printing a brochure: details irrelevant. Somebody who does understand the details is going to use them to their advantage.
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1. bentcorner ◴[07 Jun 21 23:53 UTC] No.27428880[source]▶
Feels similar to "Reflections on Trusting Trust".

Could someone inject links into content in such a way that you cannot find the link in your own source or even your hosting stack?

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2. bombcar ◴[08 Jun 21 03:08 UTC] No.27430214[source]▶
You could modify the web server to modify the code in a similar way to the reflections paper.

But even more imaginative would be to work it into the kernel or the ssl layer somehow.