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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de 1 mo. ago

Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing

Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!

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i know that site from when i was still a teen and even then it was 99% fake creds. finding just one single working login in a whole week was like finding a treasure for me.
- Guessing you're younger than me because when I was a teen, this site was AMAZING!
  
  i'm almost 30 and was using (or trying to use..) the site when i was around 14-16 years old. dunno when the site first released thought. i stopped bothering after trying countless hours for weeks to use the site.. but people just spammed fake accounts.
Sounds like the security community working together to minimize the effectiveness of a hacking community.
- I was thinking that. Flood the market with fakes to deter the average skript kiddie
  
  The logic is a little problematic, because it also means you mislead ordinary users, and honestly the infosec industry has a conflict of interest as well.
- I see more spambots trying to monetize on desperate people. People try the link in the password field, that goes in a rabbit hole of concatenated ad.fly link "shorteners" that only show endless ads
I think it just needs Captcha when adding a new entry.
- And a rate limit
This site was great for like a year. Then it got spammed to shit like every other coupon/deal site with expired or fake deals, or just garbage. It wasn’t even worth trying to find a single working code or account. I’d forgotten this site even existed I haven’t used it in such a long time.
fuck scribd, just upload yer shit to researchgate like a normal person
This website worked for me once, a bang bus credential.

Never found anything else it worked for, and the bang bus credential lasted for maybe 6 days.
Do you need a specific file? Send me the scribd link.
I agree, fuck scribd. I usually google "scribd free online downloader", there's a site (or maybe several sites, idc, I just use the first one) which allows you to somehow avoid the stupid paywall and registration
Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.
- this just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform
  
  People when they learn a new word
- enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot
  
  scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it's designed for business.

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