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Malicious puter.com apps?

There is a free, online virtual computer site called puter.com, which allows some remote work and collaboration. It's open source (I didn't take a look) but I was just clicking around in their limited Phoenix shell terminal and trying some unavailable Linux commands like "yes" which should just spam "yes" but instead it opened a Firefox page and "no" which doesn't exist. The apps cannot be found by searching the app-center either, so someone found a way to delist them or remove the name or maybe the app-name and the searchable app-title are separate or its whitespace utf characters or...

Shell and app-center search: shell and app-center

I assume this is a rickroll ^^ shell and app-center

The app opened in the shell changes the url: no

Reading https://developer.puter.com/earn-with-puter/ shows that they have some monetization of the published apps: "Alternatively, you can publish your project on Puter.com as an app and, once approved, you will earn revenue every time your app is opened! Tiles Beat and AI Chain are examples of monetized apps on Puter.com."

But the impact is probably negligible. Still, its mildly amusing.

Or maybe it was just an attempt to display the Youtube interface inside an iframe inside puter? To try and grab live cookies? GET'ing youtube.com with puter's args is not helpful though. no

Reported.