debian.org/CD/vendors/ "Dominique E. Blake-Hofer" entry is now squatted adware; other vendors 404; some ship buster or stretch

наб <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:57:27 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
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Hi!

On https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/,
the swiss vendor "Dominique E. Blake-Hofer" links to
  https://blake-hofer.net/?post_type=product
however https://www.blake-hofer.net/ appears to be a blank ad site
"Made in RapidWeaver" with lorem ipsum articles.

By bisecting http://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/blake-hofer.net,
I found that this has been the state of affairs at /least/ since 
October 28, 2018 when the title changes from "IT Dientsleistungen,
Wordpress Projekte, Webhosting" to "Meditation & Yoga Studio"
(and redirects).

In an unrelated vein, a significant proportion of the vendors I
clicked through on the site offer CDs up to buster at most:
  Linux2u                              buster
  PM Consultores Ltda                  i think stretch, but on loading it again to
                                       re-check the website broke
  Toko Baliwae - Tokonya Maniak Linux  buster
  Dr. Hinner EDV                       buster for french and english customers, but
                                       bookworm for germans
  Debianland.de                        buster
  Stormfront Ventures                  buster
  lavorato IT                          stretch!
(I didn't include the ones that offer up to bullseye or ones that don't
 say what version is offered in this list).

Additionally:
  De Linuxspecialist 403s.

  Onyx Dragon 404s.

  vianos webdesign errored and gave me
    Firefox Developer Edition does not trust this site because it uses a
    certificate that is not valid for www.vianos.de. The certificate is
    only valid for the following names: *.kasserver.com, kasserver.com

  Linux-Onlineshop redirects to https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ and
  searching "debian" there gave me nothing. Can't decide if this is
  just adware.

  Hudson Oliveira redirected me to https://corsario.webs.com/,
  half the site didn't load, and there's a "Create a Free Website"
  thing injected in the bottom left corner for webs.com;
  I'd maybe ask Hudson if that site is still accurate.

There may be some point to pruning some or all of these.

Best,
наб

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