Dev who swapped his game with image of Goatse to troll sites that stole it says it’s one of his “greatest achievements”
Josh C. Simmons, the developer of the browser-based free game Fourwordhad a rather unorthodox response to websites embedding and monetizing the game.
404 reports that Fourword, a free word game that challenges players to create as many words as possible in a five-by-five grid was embedded into other ad sites using a tool called iFrame, without the developer’s permission. In response, Simmons summoned an infamously shocking image to fight against the sites that stole and monetized the game.
“The mature and responsible thing to do would have been to add a content security policy to the page,” Simmons further wrote his website. “I’m not an adult yet, so instead I decided to display the early 2000s internet horror Goatse with a cute message over it instead of the app when Sqword detects it’s in an iFrame.”
“It has been one of my greatest achievements as a developer: deploying a huge goat image live on at least eight domains that are not mine,” he added, concluding that websites that brazenly use iFrame should be wary that “You have no control over that content – it can change at any time. One day you might be looking at a completely different kind of portal, instead of looking at an iFrame.”
If you’re somehow unaware of Goatse and his infamy (well, first of all), it’s a pretty infamous image from the early 2000s that was often shared on forums and image boards at the time. I won’t describe it here, for my own sanity as well as yours, but let’s just say it involves a man doing some pretty unspeakable things to his butt.
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