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computer security person. former helpdesk.

Jul 27, 2024, 8 tweets

wtf Temu's email unsubscribe link goes to a webpage that says your WiFi is disconnected

Here's the link, stripped of my identifying information. If you click unsubscribe on Temu the website says your WiFi is disconnected. Over HTTPS.
temu.com/bgms_unsubscri…

It appears Temu's latest email has an unsubscribe link that works, but for whatever reason this old one is saying your WiFi is disconnected how would you even code that

This was a known problem until some time in the last year.

The most rational explanation for this is Temu is using a Javascript framework that also expects to be run offline (it's localized in multiple languages), they are querying some dead resource that shows this naive lazy error, and never redirected the page. Explains everything.

Update:

Sweet googly moogly I made Temu fix their website

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