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misk @sh.itjust.works

2y ago

Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch

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"huh, ad revenue is up a bit this month"
-- some guy in China
"oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I'm so fired"
-- some IT guy at paw patrol hq
- If you'd read the article, you'd know the company was already dissolved.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
  
  It’s still a good joke tho.
  
  I think I saw something being dissolved on that page.
!NotTheOnion
http://www.appykidsco.com/ - was the site. No porn sadly. Just a chinese landing page.
- Open it from a mobile device. Definitely lots of porn ads...
  
  Yep it's porn
  And it's strangely nostalgic, those little GIFs....takes me right back to the 56k days.
  
  Yup same here. Definitely porn
- So many APKs..
- It's a lot of Chinese writing and porn gifs. I had to close it immediately because there were about 30 gifs all over my screen.
Apparently it was a holding page, could they just not have bought the domain?
What kinda porn 🤨
- Just regular porn. I took the plunge and checked it out.
- That was my first thought, too - that they'd used Paw Patrol "fan art" as marketing materials, but no... it sounds like it was just improperly vetted adult ads displaying on their site. I am more than a little disappointed.
  
  not even that exciting. the company that made the snacks apparently went out of business a year ago, so the domain lapsed.. and this is what can happen.
Woof.
- Yiff
  Is what you meant to say.
  
  awoo
It's ridiculous that they would rather throw out all this product instead of just buying the domain back and serve a simple website. Goes to show how little the brand controls about their business.
- Maybe they didn't want to sell?
  https://website.informer.com/email/muskseo1971@gmail.com
  They seem to enjoy collecting expired domains and advertising on them, that might be the more profitable route that trying to find a new buyer.
- Somebody let their domain expire and this happened.. I mean, it is at least somewhat tech related
- I agree that it's more cybersecruity related but given that this incident led to a food product recall there is a bit of a more broad appeal so I think fits this community.

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