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The weirdest thing just happened. I was on https://beej.us/guide/ and I removed the last part of the URL to make it only https://beej.us and I pressed enter. This took me to cnet.com. I have never been on cnet.com before. I have no idea how this happened. Does anyone have a clue? I'm using Firefox if that matters. Did a web server somewhere get hit by a cosmic ray or is beej's server infected by something? This is super weird. When I try to do it again it just takes me to beej's site as expected.



Maybe CNET is offering me large sums of money to randomly redirect every hundredth visitor!

Actually, they're not, so this is weird. I can't repro, and ripgrep tells me "cnet" doesn't appear in my web pages anywhere.

If you find it, I'd love to know what it is.


I couldn't reproduce, but I note the background image changes on reloads. Perhaps beej is hotlinking, and one of the images is based on cnet, who redirected to themselves?


Hm, unable to reproduce. Perhaps you have some weird browser extension installed or something intercepting DNS requests?


bit flip?




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