On January 21st, 2025, Cloudflare placed a phishing warning on Our World of Text after an unknown party hit the site with false reports. Six days later, that same party had also reported OWOT's sister website [[Your World of Text]].
On January 21st, 2025, Cloudflare placed a phishing warning on Our World of Text after an unknown party hit the site with false reports. Six days later, that same party had also reported OWOT's sister website [[Your World of Text]].
Revision as of 11:21, 30 May 2025
Phishing message
On January 21st, 2025, Cloudflare placed a phishing warning on Our World of Text after an unknown party hit the site with false reports. Six days later, that same party had also reported OWOT's sister website Your World of Text.
Due to Cloudflare's poor customer support system, both communities had difficulty removing the warning from their sites. But OWOT developer FP and YWOT creator Andrew Badr were able to file disputes with Cloudflare, leading their warnings to be removed on March 11th and April 9th respectively.
In the intervening time, the two World of Text communities took part in countless jokes at the expense of Cloudflare's unreasonable policies.
Timeline
Public shaming attemptJanuary 21st, 2025: OWOT is flagged for phishing
January 26th, 2025: FP sends a public tweet towards @Cloudflare requesting attention towards the fact that the report hasn't been handled for the past five days.
January 27th, 2025: OWOT is cleared for the first time
January 27th, 2025: YWOT is flagged for phishing
January 29th, 2025: OWOT hit with a second phishing warning
March 11th, 2025: OWOT cleared a second time
March 29th, 2025: FP begins working on removing YWOT's warning
