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2026-08-15 23:00
Anonymous pastebins are a spam magnet. I gated mine with proof-of-work instead of logins.
Open pastebin, no login, paste text, get a link. That is the whole appeal, and it is also why every anonymous paste service turns into a dumping ground. Bots script the post endpoint and fire off thousands of spam links, phishing kits, leaked credential lists, malware config. The usual fix is to make the thing less anonymous: force an account, bolt on reCAPTCHA, rate-limit by IP. Every one of thos...