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The weird thing about this to me is, the company or person who scooped up the domain... in order to get their plan working so quickly, wouldn't they have had to
by one_off_comment 5y ago
The weird thing about this to me is, the company or person who scooped up the domain... in order to get their plan working so quickly, wouldn't they have had to set up a site perfectly beforehand so the embeds would work as desired and then just sat there waiting, hoping, ready to hit the button to scoop up the domain at just the right time, praying nobody beat them to it?
Isn't that a lot of work for almost no gain?
- dec0dedab0de 5y agodepending on how vidme stored their videos it could just be as simple as returning any request for a video file with whatever they were showing.
- duskwuff 5y agoThe embeds don't actually "work", per se. When the browser tries to load the embed into an <iframe>, it gets redirected to the home page of the porn site, and ends up displaying the upper left corner of that page in the space where the video embed was supposed to go. It all looks rather more accidental than purposeful.
- one_off_comment 5y agoAh, good to know. That explains it. I feel like this aspect was lost in reporting this. It was all made to sound much more deliberate.