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look at the source youtubedown to see the sort of bullshit they pull to make downloading hard https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown https://www.jwz.org/hacks/y
by moonbug 6y ago
look at the source youtubedown to see the sort of bullshit they pull to make downloading hard
https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
- anderspitman 6y agoYour link has a rather interesting redirect for people referred from HN...
- moonbug 6y agogee, if only there were a way to avoid that.
- anderspitman 6y agoLooks fixed now. Are you the owner of the site?
- notadog 6y agoThey are not. The site belongs to Jamie Zawinski, who is commonly referred to as jwz. Zawinski is a well-known programmer (known for free software contributions) and current owner of the DNA Lounge.
- anderspitman 6y agoIn that case I'm curious how the behavior changed. It was linking me to an image on internet archive, but now it seems to be pointing to the source mentioned by @moonbug.
- Shared404 6y agoIt linked me to the same image, until I visited the site once. After visiting the site it no longer redirects to the image.
- TheDong 6y agoThe behavior is based on your 'Referer' header in the http request that gets the page. You can inspect the network request your browser is making to see what it's setting the referrer to. Why it uses certain values is a combination of your browser's code and the w3c standards, which you may look at if your browser's one of the reasonable open source ones.
- anderspitman 6y agoI'm familiar with referer. I'm saying the behavior changed. The first time I clicked on the link, I was sent to a different location than where I get sent now. From the other comment it appears the site is set up to do that.