When you click on https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/about/ it takes you to some random page trying to sell something/con you. The page won't let you go back so you have to close the tab. When you click the "about" link a second time you get to the correct page. Seems extremely dodgy.
If the page has been hacked, then have the pi downloads also been hacked?
I followed the link to https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/about/ and was redirected to a page with faux-pop-ups. This was about two hours ago, on my Android phone in Firefox, from the US. In case it’s helpful, here are pages I was redirected to from my Firefox history: https://pastebin.com/wbKj8qSV
Visiting it now, same location/wi-fi, on the same phone and on my computer in Firefox on Ubuntu MATE, it doesn’t give me that.
Pretty sure it is not a problem at my end. Happens on windows 10 with edge and an android tablet with chrome. No extensions/ad blockers etc running. Redirected to some page that then redirects you to another page which allegedly gives you a chance to win a new iPhone. Yeah right. The internet is full of (rude word)
Worrying if this has been happening for two years…
The page returns status 304, only cache details for performance and seo improvements.
It’s good to do a cleanup in the browser, clear the cache and cookies in the option from the beginning.
If a captcha appears on the screen it is the cloudflare/firewall working to protect the page. Maybe the ip of your vpn or manual change in url return this.
I mean the website firewall… The redirect does not exist, if it happens part of the machine of the client and not of the server… Here I tested in 4 machines with 4 different connections… Works fine…
Thank you to the posters testing this. I’m afraid most of what h4wk has written has gone over my head. I’m amazingly ignorant of how websites work. Could the embedded video be the problem?
The server does not redirect to https, it reports an error in mobile depending on the version of the browser. The page may have some configuration problem or some malware, but it does not seem to have been hacked, does it seem like an administration problem...
Like the other thread @lah7 mentioned, no one has considered how both these are hosted by Cloudflare. This means a totally different server can be involved for everyone attempting the same site. These addresses (each has 2 IPs) ideally route to the closest one for you but can also depend on different ISP topology. It’s done with a routing hack known as AnyCast and has its own possible issues.
And each server hosts thousands of sites. I’m surprised it doesn’t screw up more often.
Just wanted to mention this. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.
Tried going to the webpage. The webpage loaded, but then it attempted to redirect me somewhere. Where it tried to take me I do not know because I closed the tab before the page even loaded.
I’m using Google Chrome on Android 8.1. I’ve done a malware scan using Avast Mobile Security, but no malware was found.
It appears to only affect the about page and not the homepage.