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[–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

There's a hidden war over many common typos of popular domains. Almost every misspelling of YouTube redirects to the main site. Try yootube or yputube or yoitube.com. But less common misspellings or as soon as a domain registration expires, you bet some bot will snap that up and host malware, then demand a royal's random from Google to win it back

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  • [–] 1 point 50 minutes ago*

    The yoitube one is clickable on web. It appears to link nowhere to an adblock user, unless they press F12 and see that it's a bunch of links to random domains all titles either "top sex" or "barzolar" (whatever the latter means), probably some ancient search engine manipulation: marking normal sites people paid against as NSFW; advertising actual NSFW sites people paid for.

    yootube seems to be parked or something (could be fake), yptube redirects through a bunch of stuff then eventually declares me unwanted (probably because referrer turned off) and redirects me to rozetka.com.ua (they probably looked up top 10 sites per region and since I used my IP in Ukraine it directed to a Ukrainian store)

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