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Strange, because I always remember Flickr having horrible UX. You could never just open an image file directly; if you tried, Flickr would always redirect you t
by wackget 7mo ago
Strange, because I always remember Flickr having horrible UX. You could never just open an image file directly; if you tried, Flickr would always redirect you to a page which obscured the image behind an invisible layer which obscured pointer events such as right-click.
I learned quickly to avoid Flickr links.
- onli 7mo agoMaybe it was like that for a while? But flickr allowed image downloads, there was a dropdown in the UI with the available sizes for years. And it had an API (+stable URLs) to download images. It's possible they did not allow the way you tried to access images directly, to enable control of the downloads for the photographer. But I think you misjudged the behaviour back then, they were pretty open.
- PpEY4fu85hkQpn 7mo agoI believe that is to prevent hotlinking, which isn't the purpose of the service.
- extraduder_ire 7mo agoThat would make finding the URL to hotlink harder, but wouldn't prevent it. Typically, sites check that the referer header is from one of their sites to prevent hotlinking.