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I had to check about the 502 Whisky and to my surprise there is in fact a whole Whisky range. WTF? I wonder if they are just taking the mick.
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"The Thompson Bros Balmenach 1998 "Error 502 Bad Gateway" is a 27-year-old independent bottling, named after the technical error that crashed their site upon release."
So that's its actual name and not a misprint. Still a WTF that a whisky release crashed their site.
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You know what I really hate with a passion? The fact every website these days asks you to register an account and give out your email and information for data harvesting just so that you can do the most basic things. What ever happened to being able to browse the internet freely?
Even this place did that with the sidebar. I used to love reading stuff there but no way in hell am I giving my PII to the site just for reading access.
Edit Admin
If you mean the forum here, it was done because bots were overloading the server with their scraping.
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As always, ServiceNow is The Real WTF.
Admin
All I know is that yet another website has fallen behind the dreaded loginwall.
Edit Admin
Build something that finds and hard-kills the computers executing bot apps and the Internet will be your oyster, and all the world will be your cheering section.
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Use the RSS feed. That gives you all the articles without needing to log in or go to the side bar.
Edit Admin
If you look at the whole label, either on the auction web site or their own web site, you'll see that there are browser tabs at the top of the label.