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After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible. We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process. Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down.
This can not continue.
Domain 4sale.
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Classic “this is why we can’t have nice things” moment
Tragedy of the Commons.
Can’t say I’m surprised that a file sharing site that advertises complete anonymity was being used to spread illegal and I’m guessing disgusting things.
I’m surprised that anyone thought it was a good idea though.
A file sharing site with anonymity is a good idea. The assholes who abuse it is why we can’t have good things.
That’s why it’s not a good idea though, because complete anonymity is of course going to be a calling card for the worst of the worst illegal content.
When it says abuse etc it means like actually gross more illegal than pirated content correct. I believe so but am curious.
It’s nice to have an ideal and wanting to contribute. Dealing with constant abuse and threat to your physical safety, mental health, financial and legal liability, etc., is not what everyone has in mind at start.
And this goes to Lemmy instance admins too. It’s not supposed to be anonymous, but the federated nature makes spreading content with malicious intent very easy.
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Honestly, there are thousands of mods on sites like reddit that don’t get a dime. I ran a business before and burning out with the constant attacks by competitors or straight trolls is a real problem. But it’s also a selfmade problem in a way. Running a business takes its toll and if you don’t start to trust people at some point, you get nowhere. The best idea would have been some kind of leveling system which allows regular users to become mods and so on. (A little more automation than reddit has but you get the gist).
What a shame. Stupid fucking pedos.
That’s sad A lot of stuff was hosted on it from the tor network
I am very proud to say that I wasn’t even aware that abusive material filenames had a certain pattern. Thought never crossed my mind.
Curious if their proxy host was cloudflare or DDoS-Guard (Russian) or even a lesser known service.
they are smartCloudflare (American) is a cancer in this case, cause they have an auto-ban feature, which instantly checks hashes of files in a blacklist and warns domain admins with following ban of dashboard. And this not only goes to CSAM.
Yet most of the streaming sites use it.( yes i know streaming sites don’t host stuff on their own). there are only a few which can afford a paid cdn.
God damn, this will definitely break a lot of DDL shares - I know that, for a couple of forums, Anonfiles was the host that the majority of uploaders used.
Ayyy i remember that place. That’s where the OG netflix ripping tool from scene was. Doesn’t work anymore sadly.
Their API was too easy to abuse, I wrote some scripts to batch upload to these hosts. Anonfiles is just one name, rapidsha.re was another one for example. You could dork for the API manual content and find more hosts that were actually anonfiles. Now all of these are gone, it was a nice host.
I really liked it I used it if I need to send some 100 mb files to friends god I will miss that site it was great
May I introduce you to one of the many wormhole client?
And thus the true nature of humanity reveals itself, as it always does. Usually people who experience this go from liberal to conservative. Being liberal requires holding the delusion that people are naturally good.
holding the delusion that people are naturally good
Nope! Just recognizing the truth that I, within myself, can be better and that I can accept the idea of being taken advantage of by the occasional bad faith actor in exchange for being able to be part of a broader community of people who do the right thing most of the time.
Cynicism is laziness masquerading as intellectualism. It’s the “step 1: give up!” of philosophies.
