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>_exactly_ like malware But it's googlevideo.com. I know this is Google/YouTube's domain so the rest doesn't matter.
by thrdbndndn 3y ago
>_exactly_ like malware
But it's googlevideo.com. I know this is Google/YouTube's domain so the rest doesn't matter.
- redrove 3y agoWhich is besides the point and a minor nitpick at best. The fact of the matter is these techniques are well established black hat ways of preventing the user from discovering what you're doing on their device.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoDiscovering what exactly? To bad they don't use a subdomain called "adplayback" I guess, but the query parameters are obviously only useful for YouTube internal, not the users. And I won't even call them "obfuscated" -- it's just a batch of switches and plain IP and ID hash.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoBut it's googlevideo.com, how could it be a video of some shyster pimping get-rich-quick investment schemes that are convincing enough to appear totally legit to anyone below the half-way point of the bell curve? But it's a google ad, how could it link to a scam that looks exactly like my bank's website?
- thrdbndndn 3y agoWe're talking about why this URL does not look like malware. The content of the video itself is irrelevant.