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Never doubt the laziness of people, especially other developers. I'm actually more surprised that the site didn't either use Google's API to host the download,

by sudont 16y ago

Never doubt the laziness of people, especially other developers. I'm actually more surprised that the site didn't either use Google's API to host the download, or provide a hotlink button right there.

angrycoder 16y ago
Some might be from laziness, but I would imagine most of the hotlinking is from ignorance.
- TorKlingberg 16y ago
  I guess it is both: Too lazy to find out the right way to do it.
- bigiain 16y ago
  Agreed. I'll bet a significant portion of it is coming from cut-n-pasted html where the users don't even realise they're using hotlinked javascript, and have probably never even heard of jquery (and, unfortunately, are spectacularly unlikely to hear about this change on jquery's hotlinking policy).
- deleted 16y ago
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- scorpion032 16y ago
  "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor