
I just researched online that facebook connect is a service that allows websites to access your facebook identity - maybe the website was trying to display something like one of those comment sections at the bottom of pages that lets you post as your facebook account, and didn't expect a time out (which sounds unlikely to me, surely something would display on the website?)Īnother possibility is that the page is built as a facebook app (like when facebook asks if it's ok to provide access to your basic information and allow permission to XYZ) and is perhaps trying to check the status of your facebook login and the website is clumsily built (as you say) in a way that doesn't expect the user to have blocked facebook via hosts. redirect you to the page so you don't know that it recorded information about you clicking that ad. You can discover new fun sites that can cheer you up. If you are bored, The Useless Web might help you. Click the giant red button above that says 'NOW' and a useless website will open. Let facebook know that someone clicked the ad and 2. What is The Useless Web The Useless Web is a directory of websites that serve no purpose other than killing your time. We make it look like youre coding like a real hacker. Easy to use, just press the useless web button. A great selection of weird, pointless, random websites to visit when bored.

Maybe you clicked an advert and the URL that you opened would 1. Troll your friends and coworkers with Hacker Typers Hacker Prank Simulator. The Useless Website takes you to Useless Websites. It might have something to do with a Facebook advertising scheme (like google ads). You are bored with the web and want something fun to do Check out the most of useless, pointless and weird websites and get a random website each. I can't say for sure, as I'm not sure what website you're visiting or what is happening or what events occurred prior to that facebook URL being opened, but I presume that: Is this an example of "coder fail" in the sense that he/she/they did not provide for the case that fb might actually be unreachable and instead of keeping the page on "somedomaindawg" as is they redner it unsuable by forcing the fault to be rendered by the browser ? Now, I assume that they have some.facebook widget on their page which cannot be accessed. By pressing our button, you can access random web resources to discover websites that you might never have found otherwise. It will take you to one of the random websites designed to help you waste your time. Look no further, let our website surprise you. If you went through all the sites in this list and still want more websites to procrastinate on, The Useless Web is your window to exactly that.

(anonymised domain i was surfing substituting "somedomaindawg") The Useless Web is truly at the end of the internet. I copied one of the links that lead to this problem:

In such a case I get a "Server not found" error. Today, after locking out by modifying my hosts file I have ntocied that I cannot surf to seemingly random pages on the internet anymore, be they from google results or directly clicked link on other pages.
