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I can access PA on my PC but not on my MAC (three days now) as its says to me: too many redirects and I tried everything (clear data, cookies etc.…) It seems its on the PA side. Please advise

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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

I can access PA on my PC but not on my MAC (three days now) as its says to me: too many redirects and I tried everything (clear data, cookies etc.…) It seems its on the PA side. Please advise

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The problem, as I noted on another thread, is that PA has been hacked. Basically, the hackers injected code into several PA webpages that run a script on a bogus website. That script, in turn, tries to run another script on yet another bogus website which tries to inject code into your computer for presumably malicious purposes. Your computer/browser is catching these redirects and/or download attempts.

You can read my analysis here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=129492&PID=6043806#6043806

Because the PA admins/owners have done nothing to rectify this situation, I've had to install the app "NoScript" on my Firefox browser to prevent only the bad scripts from running, while allowing the good scripts.


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PA was working fine for me on chrome up until yesterday but I’m now getting the same issues as above with ‘too many redirects’. Works on my phone though.

Is anything being done about it?
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^ Not to my knowledge, but then I tried but hadn't managed to contact the webmaster who deals with such things. I would suggest not using Chrome under the circumstances if one can. I have no problems with Opera and Firefox (suggest using with NoScript) seems to work well too. Seems fine on Safari. I don't have that issue on Chrome actually either, maybe due to my settings and add-ons, and maybe location/ service provider....

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PA can do nothing about it until the owner (M@X) takes action -- which he has not.  In the meantime, you can protect yourself from these annoying redirects and possible future intrusions by doing the following:

1) Install NoScript, a free extension/add-on for your browser. (I use it in Firefox).
2) Open NoScript and add the websites: "https://new2sportnews.com", and "https://advertising-cdn.com".
3) Mark them both as "Untrusted".
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Keep seeing that M@X may have walked away a bit from PA. Is there any kind of succession plan...
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Originally posted by bartymj bartymj wrote:

PA was working fine for me on chrome up until yesterday but I’m now getting the same issues as above with ‘too many redirects’. Works on my phone though.

Is anything being done about it?


Exactly the same for me with Chrome - it started giving out the 'too many redirects' messages today. I'm using Firefox for Prog Archives now.
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Originally posted by Gentle and Giant Gentle and Giant wrote:

Originally posted by bartymj bartymj wrote:

PA was working fine for me on chrome up until yesterday but I’m now getting the same issues as above with ‘too many redirects’. Works on my phone though.

Is anything being done about it?


Exactly the same for me with Chrome - it started giving out the 'too many redirects' messages today. I'm using Firefox for Prog Archives now.

The same. 

I use Microsoft Edge with the pc.

But on my cell I cant get the line even with Microsoft Edge .
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Snicolette Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2022 at 14:48
It's intermittent on my laptop, for me.  I use Chrome pretty much all of the time, and rarely use my phone app.
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Originally posted by bartymj bartymj wrote:

Keep seeing that M@X may have walked away a bit from PA. Is there any kind of succession plan...

He's the owner... so no, I don't think so.

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by bartymj bartymj wrote:

Keep seeing that M@X may have walked away a bit from PA. Is there any kind of succession plan...

He's the owner... so no, I don't think so.
You're scaring me! Even if he's the owner, I hope he won't just pull the plug someday and walk away! He must pass the torch to someone else first!!
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^ Well yes, but he can just not do that, keep the site, and hope things don't spiral out of control.

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There is a saying that everyone and everything has their price, and that you get what you pay for.

This is second-hand knowledge and the source was rather dubious, but purportedly someone had wanted to buy the site off M@x and that the owner would consider selling it for a very high price. I'd consider selling it to SPECTRE for a high enough price even if I did work for MI6 (a branch of Musical Intelligence). It's an odd situation because while it has an owner, most of the content, which I would say is the biggest value in this outdated content, was generated by volunteers.

Anyway, if Elon Musk was willing to pay 44 billion for Twitter.... I don't see him buying this site, but if he did a few of us (I'd be the first against the wall) would be out of a job, even if it is just a voluntary position.

I do hope this site lasts, that the "data" is backed-up and made available (maybe mirrored eventually), and as one member brought up with me recently, we pass around our contact details -- like email addresses (I hardly ever check that one I have shared as I normally only check my primary work one).
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^ Yeah I should'a taken a few more emails---   James the Gecko, you Swindon Skink, you out there?


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Easy Money Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2022 at 19:43
I saw the website where Max was trying to sell the site, this was quite a while ago, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. At the time he was asking one million for it. He was offered a couple hundred thousand by two different people.
At the time the site was pulling in about 50 thousand a year. It is probably pulling in much less than that now.
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Here is the site where it was for sale:
https://flippa.com/6303909-progarchives-com

It is no longer for sale, but apparently it pulls in about $3,400 a month.

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^ Thanks. I had remembered the 1000, 000 dollar asking price. And Micky said that he had wanted to purchase it (not sure if he made an offer). Micky was such a talker, miss his energy,

Still, weird with this site, because yes the domain name has value, but the site architecture is outdated, and a big part of the value would be user generated content, so I could imagine some people feeling like they'd been sold out who have volunteered a huge many hours with no remuneration if the site and IP was sold.

So may sites went defunct and ended up becoming tempooray porn sites. I would rather someone who cares about the music buy it than this become, say, a raunchy website such as ProgArchives, home of the pork sword, your ultimate Tool resource.

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None of this sounds encouraging! I need an easy resource for new niche music...
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Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

PA can do nothing about it until the owner (M@X) takes action -- which he has not.  In the meantime, you can protect yourself from these annoying redirects and possible future intrusions by doing the following:

1) Install NoScript, a free extension/add-on for your browser. (I use it in Firefox).
2) Open NoScript and add the websites: "https://new2sportnews.com", and "https://advertising-cdn.com".
3) Mark them both as "Untrusted".


I just tried this, and it does not work (in Chrome). Cry
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Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

PA can do nothing about it until the owner (M@X) takes action -- which he has not.  In the meantime, you can protect yourself from these annoying redirects and possible future intrusions by doing the following:

1) Install NoScript, a free extension/add-on for your browser. (I use it in Firefox).
2) Open NoScript and add the websites: "https://new2sportnews.com", and "https://advertising-cdn.com".
3) Mark them both as "Untrusted".


I just tried this, and it does not work (in Chrome). Cry

What's the problem? I have it working in Chrome on Windows OK.
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