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My guess is that each frame of the video was OCR'd for text, so as the author typed a URL in one character at a time it was producing unique substrings on-scree

My guess is that each frame of the video was OCR'd for text, so as the author typed a URL in one character at a time it was producing unique substrings on-screen and the youtube bot dutifully tried to fetch each of those unique substrings

chrsstrm 6y ago
That seemed like the gist of it. I wasn't surprised that it was OCR'ing text, but I was floored that it recognized a URL and started firing off requests.
- jeffhuys 6y ago
  https://-- https://-- DROP TABLE videos;