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  • Facebook, not Netsurf

    From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 4 21:52:40 2021
    I'm afraid that when I discovered that Netsurf was repeatedly failing to
    access m.facebook.com over a period of several hours, I assumed that
    Facebook had decided to slam some kind of JavaScript-driven traffic throttling/bot banning device on their site that banned all
    'non-standard' browsers (having had that experience with a number of
    websites over the past year).

    But apparently somebody actually *has* taken down the mighty Facebook,
    which rather amuses me. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp-today-b1932059.html

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  • From Tim Hill@21:1/5 to harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk on Tue Oct 5 12:35:48 2021
    In article <70a94e7659.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

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    But apparently somebody actually *has* taken down the mighty Facebook,
    which rather amuses me. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp-today-b1932059.html

    They took it all down themselves. Rumour has it that a new configuration required that their servers were taken offline for some changes but once
    they did that they couldn't access the servers to upload those changes. A schoolboy error by a firm run by a schoolboy.

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