The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

From 2025.

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    18 hours ago

    This article is dated “9 October 2025” which would make it almost a year old.

    • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it’s fetching the headline.

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        14 hours ago

        If the site metadata is made to contain fhe date then yeah, but otherwise I don’t think theres a way to get the date of the html file from its url…?

        If not, then there isn’t any standardized publication date format which allows us to automate retrieval.

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          2 hours ago

          A lot of them use this in the HTML:

          <meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100">
          <meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100">
          <meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z">
          <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">
          

          I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is. Still, if the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to decide to continue without a date in those cases.