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imaginamundo ◴[] No.27428049[source]
Well, that is unfortunately.

In 2015 I was fired because some issues on a site that I was working on because some friction with the company owner. Two months before I was fired I reported that some links to others sites non related to our service was on the initial page (some porn and some scams pages). After that I heard from my ex-coworkers that a manager from another area from the company told that I was fired because I was linking porn on some pages from our service. I didn’t knew at the time that those tools existed, but only today I realized that it is an option.

I was really sad with that manager and didn’t understood the reason to lie to my friends the reason of my demission. But is nice to know what may have caused the issue. Better late than never hahaha.

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1. geek_at ◴[] No.27434288[source]
Wow that sucks. It's not just HTML Cleaners though. A few years ago (before snowden) I analyzed free proxy servers and found that most of them blocked https and many even injected JS or HTML into all requests [1].

I also wrote a tutorial on how you can build an infecting proxy too [2]. Doesn't work anymore though since HTTPS is everywhere. Thank god

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2015-analyzing-443-free-proxies [2] https://blog.haschek.at/2013/05/why-free-proxies-are-free-js...