Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking 668
naught writes "Fuddruckers, a hamburger chain, hotlinked to a flash game developer's Burgertime clone on their 'Fuddrockers' page. When the developer noticed an abnormal amount of traffic coming from their website, he decided to let the company know how he felt -- and maybe teach them about hotlinking.." From the post: "So, I redirected everything coming from Fuddruckers.com. (learned all about .htaccess files also... neat!) Wrote a nice little message pointing out how incredibly stupid their web developer is. And then redirected the main page to a pleasant little website showing photographs of slaughterhouses. And also opened up some more popups, for those that don't have popup blockers."
Obviously he wasn't a Slashdotter... (Score:3, Funny)
Neopets and Livejournal users are just as bad (Score:1, Funny)
I redirected all the traffic from their site back to their own site. Neopets thought we were ripping off their site, when in fact I repointed the DNS of the site they were abusing back at them.
Modder Fuddruckers (Score:2, Funny)
the fat kid (Score:5, Funny)
They'll be sorry now! (Score:5, Funny)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:056:32 -0400
To: webmaster
Subject: Complaint about your website
To Whom It May Concern;
Upon returning from a birthday party at one of your restaurants in Atlanta, my ten year old son wanted to look at the Fuddrucker's website. Normally, I am very restrictive on what Joshua may view, but I was confident that the content on your website would be child appropriate.
Much to my dismay, my son became very upset at something he saw on your site. When I went to investigate, I discovered numerous pop-up browser windows detailing how cows are killed and slaughtered, and ground into hamburger meat! This information was thrust upon him when he clicked on a link to a game called "BurgerTime" from your so-called "Fuddrockers" page, which appears to be intended for children.
My child is still upset, and it has taken my wife almost an hour to calm him down. Now he has said he will never eat a hamburger again, and has been repeatedly apologizing for helping "kill the cows".
I am absolutely appalled that you post this sort of information on your website. It is my duty, as a parent, to teach my children where meat comes from.
I can safely say that my family and I will never step foot in another Fuddrucker's restaurant after this traumatic evening.
Justin Daniels
Atlanta, Georgia
Re: Sounds like slashdot, no? (Score:3, Funny)
The fuddrucker effect?
But in all seriousness people!` (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot Logic (Score:3, Funny)
Google (Score:3, Funny)
Re:www.fuddrruckers.com (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obviously he wasn't a Slashdotter... (Score:5, Funny)
Fun with old hotlinked images... (Score:5, Funny)
Most of these sites are especially crappy, and as such, the bandwidth used wasn't much, so for the time being I didn't do anything about it.
Well, with the removal of the albums directory, I decided to redirect all requests for images in it to this annoyingly animated strobing GIF [nuxx.net]. This has the wonderful affect of making many, many crappy sites blink horribly. Like this [myspace.com] and this [xanga.com].
Re:Google (Score:2, Funny)
However, it might backfire and reduce the usefulness of Google. I noticed that if I go to Google and type in "fuddruckers" and then click "I'm feeling Lucky", I'm right back at Google again. If Google bought out EVERY web page (like how they apparently bought Fuddruckers), their relevance might reduce to nothing, which explains why they really wanted to sell off all those shares of stock.
The evil bit has been FLIPPED!
ok (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fun with old hotlinked images... (Score:3, Funny)
I believe proper 1337 }{aX0r etiquette is to change hotlinked images to goatse.
Re:Two wrongs.. (Score:3, Funny)
# while true ; do
> wget http://games.briggster.com/media/burgertime.swf [briggster.com]
> rm burgertime.swf
> done
*yawn* Goodnight.
He was too kind (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hotlink THIS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ass (Score:2, Funny)
And the worst part was, after Fuddrucker's did all that, they went out and lustfully masturbated to pictures of his flash game, then got angry that his game was so much better than anything they could come up with, so they went off and gluttonously bathed themselves in Fuddrucker's Special Sauce to make themselves feel pretty.
So, like, wow. These guys are evil. And not just evil... but bold tagged, capital lettered, exclaimation marked, one-for-an-i'd, Kevin Spacied EV1L!
Re:Hotlinking != Hyperlinking (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ass (Score:1, Funny)
Plagiarism for profit purposes is greedy, shows undue pride, obviously Fuddrucker's web designer was envious of the Flash programmer's skill, but too slothful to acquire or implement them. Four deadly sins right there.
And in response, Mr. Briggs' own pride resulted in their actions incuring his wrath, as it was far easier to be an asshat than to deal with things in a civil maner (that's sloth). Admittedly he's only got three there, but personally I think the list should be expanded to include asshattery.
Re:What the fuck? (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot calling the kettle black? (Score:3, Funny)