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ThePirateBay now counting DOWN rather than up (thepiratebay.se)
7 points by benbristow on Jan 1, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Danger: Accidentally clicked on it. It spun my iPhone into a tight loop with a fake security dialog and a toll free number to call. I was unable to close the tab or get off the page fast enough to keep it from coming back. I finally had to get into settings and turn off javascript to regain use of my browser.


Anyone have any idea what this means?


Looks like a count-down timer for New Year's day, and with the month counter gone awry because of the inverted logic of trying to count down to a day in the past.


Yup, this is pretty common mistake when people do these timers. Also note in the JS it set the date to `var date = new Date(2015, 01, 01);` i.e New Years Day. So it's not some message that it will be back up in 30 days or anything like that :(




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