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You're right, the big companies are the biggest offenders against this intended use of the web. And that's bad. And they aren't accessing others intellectual p
by cyborgx7 8y ago
You're right, the big companies are the biggest offenders against this intended use of the web. And that's bad.
And they aren't accessing others intellectual property with this. They are building custom tools to display other's intellectual property. Very different.
- threeseed 8y agoSo Google, Microsoft and Apple who fund and build the web browser you are currently using are against the intended use of the web. I wish more companies would "offend" then.
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- gcb0 8y agobrowser have very explicit rules against this very action by apple. in your browser, apple.com cannot access the content from jguitar.com
- boodrizz 8y agoThat is not true in several ways. Iframes and cdns work. There are security measures that prevent https connections from embedding http and other content restrictions, but those are for security reasons. People hotlink images, it's a wild web out there
- gcb0 8y agoFor everything you described there is a tag or http header i can set on my own content to prevent a browser on another domain from 'hotlinking'. If you are the 'browser' as this IOS feature is, there is none. I hope it at least respect the robots.txt rules.
- dcow 8y agoWhats the legal precident for cases like this? A C&D is not the law and just because big-corp has lawyers doesn't mean bullying people who don't access their public resources in exactly the way they want is legal...