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It will break forums and imageboards in my experience. Perhaps due to CAPTCHA.
by Feniks 9y ago
It will break forums and imageboards in my experience. Perhaps due to CAPTCHA.
- beached_whale 9y agoLots of sites use it to prevent other sites from stealing bandwidth
- Zancarius 9y agoI think it's due to dubious "security" implementations, including at least one that was (?) present in a rather notorious PHP message board software package [1]. I'd be surprised if this survived all these years later, but then I've also seen some custom session handling code in my travels that did something similar even as recently as 2-3 years ago. Some image boards do it to prevent casual hot-linking, as my sibling poster notes. [1] https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8396 https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8396