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by slickdifferent 121 days ago
Probably unrelated, but there was an old exploit on facebook using notes where you could paste an image tag with a URL + dynamic parameter an unlimited amount of times and facebook crawlers would hit that link however many times it was pasted in the note, essentially allowing you to DDOS a site with their servers. https://www.radware.com/blog/security/a-flaw-worth-fixing-ho...