▲ 62 ▼ Reddit keeps testing desktop UI changes ahead of its IPO (www.androidpolice.com) submitted 2 years ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.ml 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Presumably to disable that hot linking from other websites/apps. Especially if they use scrapers. But yeah, bad ux. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Obfuscating the image file like that is usually completely transparent to scrapers actually, as the image URL is almost always in the HTML. You can find the direct image link yourself if you poke around in the element inspector for a bit. It's just to make it harder to copy and increase to amount of people that link the full site URL (with the tracking and analytics ofc) instead of the image directly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago I'm not on desktop so can't inspect to see the img src. But it's possible for a url in img src to have a different response (ie, html) when it's a direct navigation (ie new tab). permalink fedilink source parent [–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago It's almost like Pinterest. Ugh. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Obfuscating the image file like that is usually completely transparent to scrapers actually, as the image URL is almost always in the HTML. You can find the direct image link yourself if you poke around in the element inspector for a bit. It's just to make it harder to copy and increase to amount of people that link the full site URL (with the tracking and analytics ofc) instead of the image directly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago I'm not on desktop so can't inspect to see the img src. But it's possible for a url in img src to have a different response (ie, html) when it's a direct navigation (ie new tab). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago I'm not on desktop so can't inspect to see the img src. But it's possible for a url in img src to have a different response (ie, html) when it's a direct navigation (ie new tab). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago It's almost like Pinterest. Ugh. permalink fedilink source parent